The ten stories of Rhapsody, together with the three previously uncollected pieces added to this edition, are utterly distinctive in voice and sensibility. At least three of the Rhapsody stories - 'A Country House', 'Days', and the brilliant, allusive and enigmatic 'A Garland of Earth' - are small masterpieces. Not bad by the age of twenty-four. All of them are extremely controlled studies of constrained desire, loneliness and incomplete relationships for which Edwards was developing a non-realist world of imagery and symbolism and her own language. Music is one of the motifs. For Edwards, music represents art, but also the possibility of sexual passion which is otherwise largely unstated but is everywhere a powerful undercurrent.
- ISBN10 1905762461
- ISBN13 9781905762460
- Publish Date 29 October 2007 (first published 3 June 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Parthian Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 283
- Language English