Fifty Stories

The many readers who have followed the rich progression in Kay Boyle's writing over the years will delight in this dazzling retrospective collection of her short stories. Readers new to her work will marvel at the astonishing range and depth that have established Kay Boyle as one of our finest writers.Here are fifty stories, selected by the author, that span five decades of our contemporary history - Paris in the twenties and thirties, France during the military occupation, Germany under Hitler, and a selection of American stories that reach from Atlantic City in the thirties to New York City i the sixties. Pivoting on the Second World War, these stories dramatize the abrupt transformation from the bohemian rebellion of Americans in Paris to the stunned social despair of wartime. Always intensely imaginative, the stories probe the center of our moral and emotional experience.