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The Stories of William Sansom: William Sansom

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This stunning collection, introduced by Elizabeth Bowen, offers a gleaming array of Sansom’s finest fables, among them The Wall, A Contest of Ladies, Displaced Persons, Various Temptations, A Saving Grace, A Woman Seldom Found, and The Vertical Ladder.

‘William Sansom (1912-1976) was once described as London’s closest equivalent to Franz Kafka. He wrote in hallucinatory detail, bringing every image into pin-sharp focus ... Sansom writes of head-aching hatreds and hopeless ecstasies, of malevolent objects and wasted lives ... Sansom's publisher described his work as "modern fables", but what makes them so ripe for rediscovery is their freshness and currency.’ Christopher Fowler, Independent

‘The worlds William Sansom surprises into life are populated with gentle stranglers and murderous lovers, with beasts that think like men and men who dream themselves into beasts. Their environs are often menacing and unfailingly strange.’ Time

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