{"product_id":"lydia-steptoe-stories-faber-stories-w3","title":"Djuna Barnes: The Lydia Steptoe Stories [2019] paperback","description":"Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.","brand":"Barnes, Djuna","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44318523425058,"sku":"9780571352470","price":4.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/barnes-djuna-lydia-steptoe-stories-faber-stories-w3-9780571352470-40361092088098.jpg?v=1673893962","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/lydia-steptoe-stories-faber-stories-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}