Description
Vivid, compact and uplifting, these deftly crafted short stories by a scholar and writer of rare intellect and learning are supreme vignettes of human life.
Written in the tradition of Hemingway's The Revolutionist and Cat in the Rain, Nicholas Hagger's portrait minia tures lift the veil on the richly textured lives of men and women in all walks of life. Writing with masterly economy, he reveals and illuminates the essential truths of mankind.
Their brevity, strongly reminiscent of Joycean 'epiphanies' make these short stories perfect travelling or bedtime reading.
A Spade Fresh With Mud, the first volume in a series of four, includes the stories Nicholas Hagger penned during the 1960s and early 1970s.
