To Cut A Long Story Short
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer returns to his most beloved form in To Cut a Long Story Short, a razor-sharp collection of fifteen short stories that showcases the full breadth of his narrative genius — from boardrooms and courtrooms to drawing rooms and deathbeds, each tale is a precisely engineered trap that springs shut with a devastating twist. With his trademark economy of language and an unerring eye for human weakness and ambition, Archer chronicles the lives of con artists, fallen aristocrats, wronged lovers, and desperate gamblers, each story a miniature novel unto itself, pulsating with tension and moral complexity. A worthy successor to his celebrated earlier anthologies, this collection cements Archer's reputation as one of the great modern architects of the short story form, drawing comparisons to the wry social observation of W. Somerset Maugham and the structural precision of O. Henry. His prose is deceptively simple, luring the reader into a false sense of security before the rug is pulled away with surgical precision — leaving one to wonder, with every turn of the page, who among these characters will triumph and who will fall.
Author: Jeffrey Archer
Format: Hardback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer returns to his most beloved form in To Cut a Long Story Short, a razor-sharp collection of fifteen short stories that showcases the full breadth of his narrative genius — from boardrooms and courtrooms to drawing rooms and deathbeds, each tale is a precisely engineered trap that springs shut with a devastating twist. With his trademark economy of language and an unerring eye for human weakness and ambition, Archer chronicles the lives of con artists, fallen aristocrats, wronged lovers, and desperate gamblers, each story a miniature novel unto itself, pulsating with tension and moral complexity. A worthy successor to his celebrated earlier anthologies, this collection cements Archer's reputation as one of the great modern architects of the short story form, drawing comparisons to the wry social observation of W. Somerset Maugham and the structural precision of O. Henry. His prose is deceptively simple, luring the reader into a false sense of security before the rug is pulled away with surgical precision — leaving one to wonder, with every turn of the page, who among these characters will triumph and who will fall.