Laura Del-Rivo, Where is My Mask of an Honest Man?

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

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First circulation or publication Sep 2013

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United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

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Story Collection

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Where is My Mask of an Honest Man?

(2013), the first short story collection by Laura Del-Rivo (b. 1934), contains seven tales written over the past ten years. One of these, “J Krissman in the Park”, had previously appeared in the annual anthology

The Best of British Short Stories

(2013), edited by novelist Nicholas Royle (b. 1963).

Mask

, with 93 pages of main text, develops and extends the style and themes of Del-Rivo’s three published novels,

The Furnished Room

(1961),

Daffodil on the Pavement/Animals

(1967), and, in particular,

Speedy and Queen Kong

(2004). The stories are packed with distinctive phrasing – Del-Rivo rarely writes a commonplace sentence – and focus on marginal figures in an interzone between a realistic London of market traders and greasy spoon cafes, mainly in…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Where is My Mask of an Honest Man?". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 November 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35065, accessed 27 April 2024.]

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