Volume 25, Number 13 · August 17, 1978
A Modern Master
By Frank Kermode
Selected Stories
by V.S. Pritchett
Random House, 332 pp., $10.00
The fourteen stories in this collection are all later than the Collected Stories of 1956, and presumably represent V.S. Pritchett's choice of his work since that date or a little later. The jacket copy is uncommunicative about the exact provenance of the stories, and the biographical matter provided by the publishers is an inadequate and slightly garbled version of the copy written for their edition of Blind Love (1969). A similar unwise frugality has apparently restricted proof correction, but in view of the state of the texts in which we are obliged to read more than one major novelist, this could have been meant as a subtle compliment to Sir Victor.
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