This is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short-story writers of all time. Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles.
Details
- Author: Harrison, Jessica
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Format: Hardback
- Publication Date: 07/10/2021
- ISBN: 9780241455654
- B-Code: B058373
- Pages: 288
- Dimensions: 187x114mm
