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Penelope Lively (Author)

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Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: William Heinemann (August 11, 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0434427438
ISBN-13: 978-0434427437
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sensitive Writer with Consistent Style, August 17, 2002

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Lively's complete short stories (they're all here) showcase how well she writes.

Lively is especially adept at illustrating how a person comes to change (change one's mind, change one's attitude, fall out of love, grow up, et cetera). Lucky for the reader, many if not all of these stories work with the theme of how a person does change. Again and again, we see that she is remarkably good at constructing the feelings and thoughts of adolescents, and this reviewer suspects it is partly because Lively has indelible memories of her own amazing childhood; read also her Oleander, Jacaranda autobiographical work, hinted at in the marvelous short story about an English girl returning from a childhood in colonial India.

Lively is purely talented as a wordsmith, with amazing economy and clever, rather elegantly composed dialogue. The book is excellent from start to finish.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute & Delightful Perfection!, January 24, 2000

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In this collection of short stories, Penelope Lively conjurs up worlds and characters and prose that touch the heart and often bring laughter and tears. The deftness of the writing is astonishing. This book is a perfect bedside companion for all seasons.

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IT WAS July when he went to Morswick, early autumn when he left it; in retrospect it was to seem always summer, those heavy, static days of high summer, of dingy weather and outbursts of sunshine, of blue sky and heaped clouds. Read the first page

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