In the Critics this week
Is by the novelist William Trevor, who pays tribute to V S Pritchett's mastery of the short story form. Pritchett, Trevor writes, "indelibly left his mark on it". He praises Pritchett's "exploration of the human condition", noting that "the unusual as a human quality appealed to him, as mild eccentricity did".In Books, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of Becoming Dickens , edited by Jenny Hartley. He is as taken with Hartley's editorial efforts as he is with Dickens, comparing her achievement to writing "the Lord's Prayer on a grain of rice". Douglas-Fairhurst notes Hartley's judicious selection from Dickens's correspondence of "a good cross section of Dickens's different epistolary moods and modes". Alluding to Dickens's comparatively early death, Douglas-Fairhurst says "Reading how much he crammed into his life, the only surprise is he lasted that long".
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The Books Essay in this week's New Statesman is by the novelist William Trevor, who pays tribute to VS Pritchett's mastery of the short story form. Pritchett, Trevor writes, "indelibly left his mark on it". He praises Pritchett's "exploration of the
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