The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America's great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals-such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books-in which it originally appeared. This first collection of Hardwick's short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an obs...