The Lydia Steptoe Stories : Faber Stories

Name: The Lydia Steptoe Stories : Faber Stories
Brand: Faber & Faber

Faber & Faber

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. \n\u2018I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.\u2019\nIn these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening \u2013 accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.\nA fourteen-year-old girl plans to become \u2018a virago\u2019, until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father\u2019s mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. \u2018Alice\u2019, she tells herself, \u2018be a man.\u2019\nBarnes makes\n\nThe Lydia Steptoe Stories\nFaber Stories\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mai;