Fine Lit

First published in 1981.
Reprinted 1982, 1984 & 1988.

Winner of the Alan Marshall award

 

Contents:

• Two Years in Exile
• The Kitchen
• Plaques
• Raphael Lazarus, the Painter
• Drifting
• Two Letters
• The Philosopher (available to read here)
• A Marriage
• The Ghetto or T–
• The Juggler
• Laudate Dominum
• Honeymoon
• Before the Law
• Epitaph
• The Ice-Cream Vendor
• Tinsel and Dust
• Home (available to read here)

Seventeen stories in which the author adopts various roles – immigrant child, doctor, deserted wife, tourist, jester – to tell of adjustment and maladjustment of migrants in a new land; of conflict between the generations; of individuals and communities doomed by time and by their own natures; of obsessed artists and rootless philosophers; and of impossible friendships and impossible loves.