English Patience
Francis Wyndham waited nearly thirty years to publish his first book of stories
Peter Terzian
The Complete Fiction (New York Review Books Classics)
by Francis Wyndham
NYRB Classics
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If artists can be divvied up into prodigies and late bloomers, the British writer Francis Wyndham has been both. His melancholy publishing history suggests this split career has been more a curse than a blessing. He composed his first stories between the ages of seventeen and twenty, during World War II, “while I was hanging about waiting to be called up and while I was convalescing after I had been invalided out of the
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