Binding: Paperback
Description: One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students and renting out her spare room. Quiet middle - class and middle - aged Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role - play at the hospital and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants. In The Shielding of Mrs. Forbes a disappointed middle - aged mother dotes on her only son Graham who believes he must shield her from the truth. As Graham's double life becomes increasingly complicated we realize how little he understands not only of his own desires but also those of his mother. A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with two stories of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.
Title: Smut Stories
Author(s): Bennett Alan
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250003164
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/3/2012
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction