Author:Wyndham Lewis,Paul O'Keeffe
Wyndham Lewis can claim to be one of a tiny handful of British artists who had a European reach and ambition. Creator with Ezra Pound of Vorticism, editor, designer and author of the great art manifesto Blast, a great painter and portraitist, novelist, polemicist and hater of the Bloomsbury movement, through a long life Lewis remained controversial, belligerent and very funny. With Joyce, Eliot and Pound (all of whose definitive portraits he painted) he stood for a heroic engagement with art and literature - and his ultimate (and unique) achievement was to be both a spectacular novelist and a spectacular painter.
The Wild Body showcases his most original, daring and entertaining short fiction, mainly written around the time of Blast. In amazing contrast with so much feeble British writing of the period, it shows the heady delight of modernism at full tilt.
A magnificent collection: striking, moving, and deeply thought-provoking
—— Financial TimesSeiffert is a writer of great delicacy and toughness...good story begetting good story after good story
—— GuardianIt is extraordinary to experience these fictions... Not even the achievement of The Dark Room, its maturity and courage, will quite prepare the reader for the subtle art at work throughout these stories
—— Irish TimesVivid, just and heartfelt
—— Daily Telegraph'The Crossing' has all the leanness of Hemingway's short fiction... In Seiffert's hands, the tale becomes a tense parable set at the dangerous intersection of trust, desperation and xenophobia
—— New York Times Book ReviewRachel Seiffer's short stories excel at depicting the awkwardness and confusions of life...and all are created with the same confidence and skill she showed in her Booker nominated novel The Dark Room
—— Sian Stott , Daily TelegraphSkillfully constructed... It's rare to meet such an unwriterly writer. Especially one who does it so well
—— ObserverCaptivating... Because Seiffert writes without judgment or sympathy, her flawed characters are all the more compelling
—— Entertainment WeeklyWhether they are Polish emigrés or hoary World War I veteran's, Seiffert's cast walks the knife's edge of history... It takes an agile mind and dexterous prose to invoke such weighty chunks of history in short fiction
—— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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