Genre: | Short Stories |
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Language : | English |
Published: | October 17, 2019 |
Edition: | 2nd |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9780571356904 |
ISBN10: | 0571356907 |
Pages: | 48 |
Dimensions: | 4.37 x 6.3 x 0.12 inches |
Weight: | 1047.8 g |
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'.