A Bit Off the Map: New Short Stories - Angus Wilson (1957 1st Edition Hardcover)

A Bit Off the Map: New Short Stories - Angus Wilson

Secker & Warburg

1957 1st Edition Hardcover

Excellent condition!

Angus Wilson is one of those fascinating English writers who by their unique, and sometimes eccentric perceptions, bring us a prescient view of their times. Written before the advent of Britian's "angry young men," (just barely) Wilson chronicles the demise of British society which he believed had lost its way, as Yeats said "the center does not hold."

These stories chronicle an array of of personalities who in a less gifted writer would have become mere caricatures but instead the are persons who are hoisted on Mr. Wilson's satirical petard. What Mr. Wilson does not engage in is self-pity, a fault he found with Britain's younger post war writers. (see his interview in the Paris Review). These stories have a depth because they involve the reader in asking questions about the state of Britain's society and culture among the young and the elderly. You will be drawn into a world that does not exist at this time, but certainly pointed the way to the future while looking backwards in a witty, satirical,brutal and engaging manner.