Short is sharp
John Sutherland, 3 February 1983
The Pangs of Love
by Jane Gardam.
Hamish Hamilton, 156 pp., £7.50, February 1983,0 241 10942 6 Show More
by Jane Gardam.
Hamish Hamilton, 156 pp., £7.50, February 1983,
The Man Who Sold Prayers
by Margaret Creal.
Dent, 198 pp., £7.95, January 1983,9780460045926 Show More
by Margaret Creal.
Dent, 198 pp., £7.95, January 1983,
Happy as a Dead Cat
by Jill Miller.
Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, January 1983,9780704338982 Show More
by Jill Miller.
Women’s Press, 120 pp., £2.50, January 1983,
“... The short story emerged as a major form in the 19th century, a by-product of the great Victorian periodical boom. Some years ago a pessimistic literary diagnosis assumed it would wither with its host – the non-specialist, general-interest magazine. Like the long poem, the short story would become a superseded species. But recently, things have boomed again ... ”
