{"product_id":"the-lydia-steptoe-stories-djuna-barnes-9780571352470","title":"The Lydia Steptoe Stories","description":"Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. \n‘I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.’\nIn these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening – accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.\nA fourteen-year-old girl plans to become ‘a virago’, until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father’s mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. ‘Alice’, she tells herself, ‘be a man.’\nBarnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful – and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.\nBringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49857698398496,"sku":"9780571352470","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780571352470.jpg?v=1780970657","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-lydia-steptoe-stories-djuna-barnes-9780571352470","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}