After the Fireworks, Aldous Huxley
After the Fireworks, Aldous Huxley
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After the Fireworks
Three Novellas

Author: Aldous Huxley, Gary Giddins

Narrator: Michael Page, Tom Parks

Unabridged: 12 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/04/2016


Synopsis

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley, comes his great novella, set in Rome, about a writer’s affair with a mysterious young fan—now back in print for the first time in the U.S. in more than seventy years and also featuring two other acclaimed short works, plus an original introduction from noted critic Gary Giddins.“The psychology of the two individuals is shrewdly mastered.... After the Fireworks displays on Huxley’s part a rare but genuine if elusive sympathy as well as a sound perception of human shortcomings.”—New York Times

In After the Fireworks, three of Aldous Huxley’s lost classic pieces of short fiction are collected for the first time. In the title novella, Rome is the stunning backdrop where internationally famous novelist Miles Fanning sets out on a walk down Via Condotti toward the Spanish Steps when he encounters the mysterious Pamela Tarn—a beautiful young American admirer of his work who shares a name, as well as conspicuous personality traits, with a character from his most celebrated book. Though there is a considerable age difference between them and they come from different worlds, both are soon irresistibly drawn into a dangerous affair which has unforeseen consequences.

First published one year before he wrote his classic Brave New World and now back in print for the first time in seventy five years, After the Fireworks is Aldous Huxley at the height of his powers. Featuring an original introduction by National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Gary Giddins, this new collection also includes Uncle Spencer (1924), the story of an aging World War I veteran’s quest for the lost love he met in a prison during the war, and Two or Three Graces (1926), the tale of a passionate and destructive writer’s abusive relationship with an impressionable, bourgeois housewife.

About Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jasmin.M on April 12, 2017

3.5 this is my first time reading Aldous Huxley, I only like the first two stories but my favorite was Two or Three Graces. I've developed a reader emotional attachment to the character Grace. The character undergone a development of emotions where it questions the nature and reality of love. As Gra......more

Goodreads review by Guy on November 03, 2016

After the Fireworks is comprised of three novellas: After the Fireworks, Two or Three Graces and Uncle Spencer. The first two stories explore the nature and reality of love through inappropriate love affairs. In After the Fireworks, a famous author (British but on holiday in Italy) is used to being......more

Goodreads review by odina on January 19, 2017

Very introspective stories. In his strange, sometimes pedantic, way of storytelling, he masterfully captures the personalities of his characters in a manner that I have rarely (if at all) encountered at this particular level.......more

Goodreads review by Adam on September 23, 2024

A collection of three novellas by Aldous Huxley. The core theme of all three stories is the fictional lives we all build for ourselves through the identities we create. We believe we should be certain types of people and live certain types of lives and so we become those people and shape our lives t......more

Goodreads review by Dominique on January 26, 2024

Across the vast genres Huxley tackles, only he could make romance philosophically existential. I get him. This book taught me why George Lucas named Padme her name, pointed me to more profound writers and their works (as he always does)& new ideas. You can never go wrong with Mr. Huxley. “Who knows?......more