{"product_id":"a-party-for-the-girls-h-e-bates-9780811210508","title":"A Party for the Girls: Stories","description":"The six long stories of \u003cem\u003eA Party for the Girls\u003c\/em\u003e present H.E. Bates at his finest. A crack shot at understated tragedy, Bates is perhaps at his best with comedy and character--consider the opening line of the title story: \"Miss Tompkins, who was seventy-six, bright pink-looking in a bath-salts sort of way and full of an alert but dithering energy, looked out the drawing-room window for the twentieth time since breakfast and found herself growing increasingly excited.\" Though virtually unknown here, as \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e put it in their review of Bates's \u003cem\u003eA Month by the Lake \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), his nearly perfect stories...should set his readers clamoring for more... He is as adept at the seductive rise and fall of his narrative voice as he is cunning with naturalistic dialogue. Comparisons to Joyce, Chekhov, and Mansfield are inevitable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. E. Bates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811210502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811210508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.73w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/18\/1988","brand":"H. E. Bates","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072801140991,"sku":"9780811210508","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16c1d9af-dc88-41d8-879e-780c8fff2f2e.jpg?v=1685444015","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-party-for-the-girls-h-e-bates-9780811210508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}