Party Stories - Ella Carr Fiction Told in chapters that sweep

Told in chapters that sweep us across the world and through time

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And happy-go-lucky India is drawn to one of the victims of the accident

deftly threading their own words into the fabric of her fiction' FINANCIAL TIMES'A captivating invocation of a moment of revolutionary zeal and hope

from madeira and India Pale Ale being created to withstand the long

Party Stories - Ella Carr Fiction Told in chapters that sweepMomentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natasha's first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to J. Edgar Hoover consorting with Truman Capote in Don DeLillo's `The Black and White Ball'. Revelry can be revealing of character, as in Jay Gatsby's extravagant bash in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the decadent partying of the jaded expats in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.