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Stevie Smith Novel on Yellow Paper (Paperback). ‘Left right, be bright.’. Pompey Casmilus, Stevie Smith’s loquacious alter ego, works as a secretary and writes down on yellow office paper this wickedly amusing novel. But most of all Pompey talks about love.When Smith first tried to get her poems published in 1935, she was told by a publisher to “go away and write a novel.”. Further DetailsTitle: Novel on Yellow Paper Condition: New ISBN-10: 0811231674 EAN: 9780811231671 Format: Paperback Author: Stevie Smith ISBN: 9780811231671 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Release Date: 02/01/2022 Description: I am a forward-thinking girl, and don’t stay where I am. ‘Left right, be bright.’Pompey Casmilus, Stevie Smith’s loquacious alter ego, works as a secretary and writes down on yellow office paper this wickedly amusing novel. “Dear Reader,” she addresses us politely in the whirlwind of her opinions on death, sex, anti-Semitism, art, Greek tragedy, friendship, marriage, Nazism, gossip, and the suburbs. But most of all Pompey talks about love.When Smith first tried to get her poems published in 1935, she was told by a publisher to “go away and write a novel.” Novel on Yellow Paper, the happy result of this advice, made its author an instant celebrity and was acclaimed as “a curious, amusing, provocative and very serious piece of work” (The London Times Literary Supplement, 1936). Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Fiction Item Height: 193mm Item Length: 130mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 250g Release Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
