Women and Fiction: Volume 2

by Susan Cahill (Editor)

Willa Cather Doris Lessing Joyce Carol Oates Alice Walker Edith Wharton Virginia Woolf and others

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1978

About the author

SUSAN CAHILL has published several travel books on France, Italy, and Ireland, including Sacred Paris, Hidden Gardens of Paris and The Streets of Paris. She is the editor of the bestselling Women and Fiction series and author of the novel Earth Angels. She spends a few months in Paris every year. MARION RANOUX, a native Parisienne, is an experienced freelance photographer and translator into French of Czech literature.

Reviews

[Paolo Z · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a tremendous let down. Volume 1 had some fantastic stories. Volume 2 bored me to tears. Not sure what happened in between the two volumes being published, but this book was such a snore. Really disappointed.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The wide range of dates and nationalities made this anthology more interesting, as my enjoyment of the stories varied widely. Even stories that weren't my favorities brought something else with it, as each had a good (short) bio of the author that gave some context. A number of the stories had a whistful sadness -- I wonder if that is a characteristic of women authors, or maybe a choice of Susan Cahill?