With an Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own vora
It is 1934. Elvira Western has left London and her dull marriage to Paul, a doctor, for Paris and her waiting lover, Oliver, a student radical. But drab hotels and interminable discussions of politics
The women at the heart of these novellas are misrepresented by men and by societal expectations. But they remain defiant. These are modern women, waiting for the world to catch up. Stead captures the
?One of Australia’s greatest novelists puts together?a crew as sad, funny and perverse as any ever gathered.’?TimeAn assortment of characters gather, at the close of WWII, at a hotel on Lake Geneva. I
