Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave And Other Stories is a book by Antonia Fraser. First published in 1991, it a collection of nine short stories, featuring series character Jemima Shore. It includes such settings as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The book includes murderous drama, black comedy, and a maniacal rapist.
Famous quotes containing the words shore, sunny and/or grave:
“It’s so lonely here. Like we were the only two people left in the whole world. Maybe we are. Maybe when we get back to shore everybody else will have disappeared. I’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
—Michael Wilson (1914–1978)
“And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other’s face.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)