Pretty Tales for Tired People
1965
First Published
3.94
Average Rating
210
Number of Pages
Three long short stories, much in the manner of Two By Two, and the title suggests just the right tone of facile sophistication with a talon they achieve. All three deal with middle-aged love and marriage, and love out of marriage, and marriage without love. A Promising Career of a benedict headmaster is foreshortened by an adulterous affair which, as it cools, is formally legalized, rapidly dissolved; he drinks, she bolts.... The Clever One who knew the ""exact price of success"" is Theodore As (c) her whose quick changes of countries and wives pay off well until he meets a woman who not only robs him blind but destroys him. The Rise and Fall of Mrs. Hapgood concerns the menopausal metamorphosis of a woman of fifty discarding her ""fatal niceness."" All provide a kind of temporal, feminine entertainment—sort of like costume jewelry, fashionable and not really valuable.
Avg Rating
3.94
Number of Ratings
17
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
53%
3 STARS
6%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
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Author
Martha Gellhorn
Author · 12 books
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (1908-1998) was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist. She is considered to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.
