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Kay Boyle's Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York, in occupied Germany, in California, Boyle has been an inspiration both as an exquisite stylist and as a chronicler of the nuances of human experience. Now in her ninetieth year, Kay Boyle dares us, in this most comprehensive collection of her storie...

I think my Crazy Hunter is the best thing I've ever done, " Kay Boyle wrote to her sister Joan in 1939, two weeks after she had finished writing it. Twenty years later she wrote to a friend, it "remains one of my best, I think." This stunning short novel portrays a family--an almost grown young woman, her mother, and her drunkard father--and a magnificent blind gelding. Powerful and businesslike, the mother is determined to put the blind horse...

Ein schmerzhaftes Bild der Nachkriegsjahre in Deutschland. Ohne die Erkenntnis von Schuld räumte man die Trümmer schnell beiseite und aus einstigen Besatzern wurden Verbündete. Die Erzählungen handeln nicht nur von den Deutschen, sondern auch von den Amerikanern in Deutschland und sparen nicht mit Wahrheiten über beide.

Die Geschichten aus den frühen dreißiger Jahren nehmen den Zusammenbruch Europas vorweg: Noch wähnt sich der einzelne in Sicherheit, aber die Bedrohung der nahenden Katastrophe schlägt sich in den Schicksalen der Protagonisten nieder.

Die junge Amerikanerin Hannah hat ihren französischen Ehemann für den Poeten Martin verlassen. Auch Martin muss eine Entscheidung treffen. Denn seine Tante Eve, mit deren finanzieller Unterstützung er eine Literaturzeitschrift herausgibt, stellt Bedingungen: entweder Kunst oder Liebe.

In furiosen Bildern und mit einem traumhaften Sprachgefühl erzählt Kay Boyle von der Liebe, von der Sehnsucht der Jugend und vom Sterben. Gekonnt variiert sie zwischen heiterem und ernstem Ton, experimentellem und konventionellem Stil.

Kay Boyle(1902–1992) published over forty books, twice won the O'Henry award for best short story of the year, and worked as a foreign correspondent for The New Yorker. Her books include Process: A Novel and Fifty Stories. Sandra Spanier is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and general editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway. She is the author of Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist and editor of Boyle's Life Being the Best a...

Tells the story of Kerith Day, in search of her own identity and place in the world. A critical observer of the dreary industrial landscape and the beaten-down inhabitants of her native Cincinnati, Ohio, Kerith determines to discover something better. She places her faith in art and politics and sets off for France.

In both her art and her life, Kay Boyle has exemplified that quality she values most in other artists--the bold articulation of a passionately held belief. An American expatriate in Europe from 1923-1941, Boyle was part of that pioneering group of modernists forging the 'revolution of the word.

When Death of a Man was first published in 1936, the anonymous reviewer in Time described the novel as a "Nazi idyll." Nothing could be further from the truth. Boyle, who lived in the town of Kitzbühel in the Tirolean Alps during the mid 30s, recalls that "In 1934, mothers, fathers, children-all barefoot-stood in the ankle-deep snow on the sidewalks of Vienna, their hands out-stretched for help .... Nazism as to them mutely accepted as the one...