INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE
'Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity . . . the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit' - Frances Spalding, Independent
Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake.
| ISBN: | 9780860681465 |
| Publication date: | 28th April 1980 |
| Author: | Stevie Smith |
| Publisher: | Virago an imprint of Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Modern and Contemporary Fiction General Fiction Romance / Relationship Stories |