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A review by literatehedgehog
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
3.0
I jumped around this story collection, looking for well known ones and particular settings or characters.
The tone of some stories remind me of Dorothy Parker, but with less dark humor and more introspective bleakness, heavier on the physical and emotional description. It's not the specifics of the where, when, and who of the stories that grab - it's the unsettling feelings, amorphous not quite depression, or pessimism, not quite happiness or loneliness - like that one moment when you suddenly don't want to be at a party, and there are hours before you can leave.
The tone of some stories remind me of Dorothy Parker, but with less dark humor and more introspective bleakness, heavier on the physical and emotional description. It's not the specifics of the where, when, and who of the stories that grab - it's the unsettling feelings, amorphous not quite depression, or pessimism, not quite happiness or loneliness - like that one moment when you suddenly don't want to be at a party, and there are hours before you can leave.