The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories Book

What can you say about The Master!!!!
His writing just got more and more impossible.
But so has my mother and I'm still there every day!!!!

Here is writing to revel in and respect - oblique, tortuous AND torturous, circumlocutory (a word especially invented for HJ!!), and ferociously DENSE in his later stories.
These are NOT later, so don't run away.
But here you WILL get a whiff of what's in store!!

James has such original subjects and original ways of narrating.
Dialogue that you scrutinise for clues.
A society balanced on a knife-edge.
So little happening on view; catastrophes and drama being played out in subterranean depths.
Characters you have to hone in on with a magnifying glass to pick up on the slightest subtlety. Of what? Manipulation, rejection, betrayal, confession, declaration.It is a minefield.
And believe you me, there ARE explosions!!!

I am hungry to delve into these stories.
The ghost ones make me tingle.
I'm drugged.
Splendid stuff.

WaYNe.