Aphrodite's Hat

Author: Salley Vickers

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  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9780007371068
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
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  • : May 2011
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
  • : September 2011
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Description

A wonderful collection of stories from the much-loved Salley Vickers.


The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves between friends, between parents and children, between children and other adults; love even, in one case, for a pet. Psychologically acute, sharply written in lucid and often witty prose, these stories, set in Venice, Greece and Rome as well as London and the English countryside, take us into the complex geography of the human heart.


Sometimes joyous and humorous, sometimes melancholy and poignant, this collection confirms Salley Vickers' reputation as one of our most subtle and engaging writers.

Reviews

'Aphrodite's Hat is an assured debut, confidently ranging across moods and voices, and deftly pinpointing the moments when her characters most truly reveal themselves. Vickers [puts] love and art into the form.' - Observer


'Sparkles with dry wit and shrewd insights - terrific' - Mail on Sunday


'A box of delights - the emotional and technical range of this collection is both impressive and delightfully disorienting! Frank O'Connor famously said that is was possible for a bad writer to write a good novel, but only a really good writer could write a decent short story. Vickers's first collection proves beyond doubt that she's a really good writer.' - Frank Cottrell Boyce, Guardian


'A deceptively wild, seamlessly well-crafted collection' - The Times


'Beautifully simple with a devastating emotional climax! with the collection, Vickers proves herself a formidable and astute chronicler of the psychology of love' - Sunday Times

Author description

Salley Vickers is the author of six novels, including the bestselling Miss Garnet's Angel, Instances of the Number 3, Mr Golightly's Holiday and, most recently, Dancing Backwards. She has worked as a dancer, an artist's model, a university teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst.