Let the Old Dead Make Room for the New Dead
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its 'detached Chekhovian tenderness'.
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication date: 17/10/2019
- ISBN: 9780571356904
- Page extent: 48
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 160 mm x 111 mm
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