Meanwhile Giles Gordon
well-meaningly but rashly raised with BH
the question of her tax situation in Botswana. The publishers came up with a complicated arrangement to keep costs down, whereby Bateleur Press
would be the...
Publishing
Penelope Mortimer
Giles Gordon
, who was at one time her literary agent, later wrote that she was impossible about her work. Pay her a compliment—and she would inevitably take it as an insult.
About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights...
Textual Features
Ann Quin
Set in an unnamed town, which is clearly Brighton, the novel is, as Giles Gordon
describes it, a Graham Greene
thriller as if reworked by a somewhat romantic Burroughs
.
Gordon, Giles, and Ann Quin. “Introduction”. Berg, 1st Dalkey Archive edition, Dalkey Archive, 2001, p. vii - xiv.
ix
The first sentence—the...
Textual Features
Penelope Mortimer
This takes the story of her life until her twenty-first birthday, treating herself (says critic Giles Gordon
) rather severely.
Cadmore is a teacher with brilliant credentials, and a visual artist whose drawings give dignity and value to ordinary life in the remote village of Dilepe and its oppressed and victimized people. She is also...
Textual Production
Bessie Head
In August 1980 BH
submitted to Giles Gordon
, who was once again her agent, six stories all linked to her historical research, though separate in their creation and in their subsequent fate. One of...
Textual Production
Bessie Head
Giles Gordon
had suggested she write a village book of the genre of Jan Myrdal's Report from a Chinese Village or Ronald Blythe
's Akenside. She would need, he said, to impose a...