978-1-58838-143-9
158838-143-9
$14.00 paperback
142 pages
NewSouth Books |
"The
story concerns an English girl, just turning 20, who leaves a drab life in
London and comes to New York. The unnamed girl speaks in her won
person, and this almost conversational narrative is interrupted now and
then by another, third person voice which watches the action from a
slightly different perspective.
These two lines make an angle, as it
were in which the girl herself moves, like a chick between cupped
hands. And the girl is, indeed, the contemporary chick, stripped
down to the barest spiritual essentials. The problem of the
complicated person willing himself into simplicity is the modern problem.
The "I" of the story is complicated because she is a young
creature of our civilization and therefore cannot define either her
goals, her means or her potential. So, instead of trying to open all
her secret compartments, she floods them with the water of
neutrality."
--Newsweek, 10/5/64
about the author
Hans Koning is a prolific and critically acclaimed author who was
a staff reporter for the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly.
He has published 13 novels--several of which have been made into
movies--10 non-fiction books, three plays, two translations, and a
children's book. Koning's newest novel, Zeeland, or Elective
Concurrences, was published by NewSouth Books.
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