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Evening of Adam (Common Reader's Alice Thomas Ellis)
Evening of Adam - Common Reader's Alice Thomas Ellis Author:Alice Thomas Ellis Called to account in the Garden, Adam immediately ratted on Eve: “she gave me the fruit of the tree, and I did eat.” Given this beginning, it’s not surprising to find that throughout the immemorial war between men and women “it’s your fault” has been a constant refrain. It’s all rather comic, in i... more »ts tragic sort of way—at least as Alice Thomas Ellis sees it. The amusing woefulness of Every Couple’s descendents is the theme which unites most of the fifteen stories gathered in this, the only collection of Ellis’s short fiction. The sparkling economy of her style makes these bristlingly witty, clever, and unsettling tales especially vivid and memorable. And enjoyable. First published in Britain in 1994. With a new Afterword by Thomas Meagher.« less