A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith

A poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Smith also wrote short prose. In A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith we find eight stories and four essays mixing throw-away charm and deadly sophistication. Her stories delight and surprise; her essays defend favorite subjects, such as cats and the suburbs. "Life in the suburbs is richer at the lower levels. At these levels people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know they are eccentric."

A poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Smith also wrote short prose. In A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith we find eight stories and four essays mixing throw-away charm and deadly sophistication. Her stories delight and surprise; her essays defend favorite subjects, such as cats and the suburbs. "Life in the suburbs is richer at the lower levels. At these levels people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know they are eccentric."