Caterpillars. The natural order -- The incalculable life gesture -- The half sister -- The old man -- Annals of the honorary secretary -- Cleanness -- The woman at the window -- A bourgeois story -- Oh death -- Cranley meadows -- Totty -- Peter Khan's third wife -- Lime pickle -- It's beginning to hurt -- Caterpillars.
Summary:
The stories in this remarkable collection--including "An Anxious Man," winner of the National Short Story Prize (UK)--are vibrant and gripping. James Lasdun's great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the vertiginous moments when the essence of a life discloses itself. With forensic skill he exposes his characters' hidden desires and fears, drawing back the folds of their familiar self-delusions, their images of themselves, their habits and routines, to reveal their interior lives with brilliant clarity.
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