Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

by Diana Athill

Book Overview

"I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958." So begins literary legend Diana Athill in the preface to Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, a long-overdue collection of her short fiction, stories which were originally published in the 1950s to the 1970s. In unsentimental though often touching prose, Athill's young women anticipate, enjoy, or just miss out on brief sexual encounters with men met on trains, at parties...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770890610
• ISBN13: 9781770890619
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Anansi International
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 7.6"