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 Three Miles
Up
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- by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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- With an
Introduction by Glen Cavaliero
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- ‘. . .
Singularly pure examples of their kind.’ So writes Glen
Cavaliero of these strange stories by Elizabeth Jane
Howard. Born in 1923, the author is best known for her
skilfully-crafted novels of upper middle-class English
life. Three of the four stories collected together here
for the first time, ‘Three Miles Up’, ‘Perfect Love’ and
‘Left Luggage’, initially appeared alongside three
stories by Robert Aickman in that touchstone of
twentieth-century uncanny fiction, We Are for the
Dark (1951), the year after Howard’s first
book, The Beautiful Visit (1950), had won
the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. The fourth and
most recently written story, ‘Mr Wrong’, a chilling and
thoroughly contemporary tour-de-force, was the title
story in a collection of Howard’s short fiction published
in 1975.
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- All four
stories, which represent the sum of Elizabeth Jane
Howard’s strange short fiction, have the power to shock,
thrill and puzzle in equal measure, and display the
‘design, coherence [and] deliberate artistry’, for which
she is justly celebrated.
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- Contains: Three Miles Up, Perfect Love,
Left Luggage, Mr Wrong.
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- Three
Miles Up is a sewn hardback book of 216+xii
pages.
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- Price
£25.00/$50 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN 1
87262175 9
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- Reviews:
- "Miss
Howard has a gift for tilting our sense of reality so
gradually that we have slid into the strange and
mysterious almost before we are aware . . . "
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The Guardian
- "Three Miles Up is a superb little volume:
it may only contain four stories, but every one is a
highly polished gem, and the introduction by Glen
Cavaliero is thoughtful and well-written. The quality of
the book production is, needless to say, immaculate." -
Reggie Oliver, All Hallows
- "Best
remembered for mainstream novels of the middle class -
realistic works which nevertheless hint of cosmic
uneasiness - Howard's rare forays into the supernatural
resulted in chilling expressions of terror and awe.
Favoring painful themes of cultural displacement and
alienation in an apathetic world . . . this is ghost
fiction as it should be!" - Hellnotes
Page updated
23rd March 2008
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