The box social and other stories / James Reaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reaney, James.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

257 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Erin, On : Porcupine's Quill, [1996]

Summary:

The Box Social & Other Stories gathers together nine of James Reaney's short fictions written in the 40s and early 50s and never previously collected in book form.The Box Social' is remarkable, not only that it introduced the theme of date rape to Canadian literature some thirty years before the phrase was coined, but also that it is told from Sylvia's point of view, and yet again that it ends with one of the quietest lines of literary vitriol imaginable ... I hated you so much, '' she said softly.'If Alice Munro has put the sexually awakening female under glass in Lives of Girls and Women, then The Box Social could just as easily have been titled Lives of Boys and Men.

OCLC:

35723865