{"product_id":"such-darling-dodos","title":"Such Darling Dodos","description":"\u003cp\u003eTowards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but it didn't do justice to the importance and quality of his work in this medium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree volumes of short stories were published - \u003cb\u003eThe Wrong Set\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSuch Darling Dodos\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eA Bit Off the Map\u003c\/b\u003e. Faber Finds are reissuing these original selections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngus Wilson made his initial reputation by his short stories, \u003cb\u003eThe Wrong Set\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSuch Darling Dodos\u003c\/b\u003e being his first two published books, appearing in 1949 and 1950 respectively. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen reviewing \u003cb\u003eSuch Darling Dodos\u003c\/b\u003e C. P. Snow perceptively wrote, 'Part-bizarre, part-savage and part-maudlin, there is nothing much like it on the contemporary scene. It is rather as though a man of acute sensibility felt left out of the human party, and was surveying it, half-enviously, half-contemptuously, from the corner of the room, determined to strip-off the comfortable pretences and show that this party is pretty horrifying after all ... Sometimes the effect is too mad to be pleasant, sometimes most moving; no one could deny Mr Wilson's gift.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Margaret Drabble points out in her biography of Angus Wilson (to be reissued in Faber Finds) his stories were in their own way to be as iconoclastic and irreverent as John Osborne's plays were to be. They not so much deserve as demand to be re-read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243487383896,"sku":"9780571249008","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571249008.jpg?v=1777704330","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/such-darling-dodos","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}