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Here's England's leading man of letters-as old as the century-at the level of his capabilities, the matchless V. S. Pritchett, who's brilliantly seen short stories have grown to be classics in his own life time. In these six superbly crafted stories-his latest effort-we see a master at the job, casting his attention over the subject matter he recognizes best, the normal women and men of Britain: studious 14-year-old Sarah, whose life is modified by a game of hide-and-seek; or Lionel Frazier, the hairdresser, who looks at a woman and sees only her brain; or George Andrews, the salesman, for whom new floral carpeting is often an exciting omen. The genius of these tales is their familiarity-almost everyone will understand a moment or a revelation of his own life in the encounters of Pritchett's utterly specific and incomparably real people. Renowned in america and Britain, Pritchett celebrates his 89th birthday with the publication of these six masterpieces. V. S. Pritchett's admirers and the ones fortunate to be finding him for the first time will see in A Careless Widow the task of a major ability at its best. Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900-1997) was created on the toyshop in 1900 and, much to his everlasting distaste, was named after Queen Victoria. A copy writer and critic, his is broadly reputed to be one of the better short story writers ever, with the rare ability to capture the incredible strangeness of day-to-day life. He passed on in 1997.
