| After the Fireworks: Three Novellas Contributor(s): Huxley, Aldous (Author), Giddins, Gary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062423924 ISBN-13: 9780062423924 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016286963 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World." --Gary Giddins In After the Fireworks, three lost classic pieces of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, are collected for the first time, with an original foreword by National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gary Giddins. In the title novella, Rome is the stunning backdrop for a renowned novelist's dangerous affair. "Uncle Spencer" is the "exquisite" (New Statesman) tale of an aging World War I veteran's quest for the lost love he met in a prison during the war, and "Two or Three Graces," "probably the thing nearest perfection of all that Huxley] has done" (New Statesman), recounts a destructive writer's abusive relationship with an impressionable housewife. Now brought back in print for the first time in seventy-five years, the novellas newly collected in After the Fireworks reveal Aldous Huxley at the height of his powers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Huxley, Aldous: - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California. |