Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead Faber Stories

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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'.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780571356904
Published: October 2019

Number of pages: 48
Width: 111 mm
Height: 160 mm
Depth: 3 mm

Publisher: Faber & Faber