Pressetext vu Black Fountain Press:
Sons longing for love and respect; fathers, excruciatingly strict or miserably inadequate; husbands following their wives into foreign lands; couples confronting the madness of everyday life or the unknown; businessmen with superstitious, suspicious collaborators; barkeepers following strange calls – all of Humphrey Gudgeon’s characters feel small at some point in their lives and yearn to escape what W. H. Auden called ‘the prison of days’.
With a sharp analytical eye, with humour, and affectionate sympathy, Gudgeon’s poignant stories offer a Joycean portrait of the lifelong struggle of individuals against the constraints of their upbringing and the limitations of their positions in the adult world.
Title: The Struggles of Mr Small
Author: Humphrey Gudgeon
ISBN 978-99987-713-8-3
Pages: 204
Price: 22 euros Genre: stories
Date of publication: 28 October 2026
Publisher: Black Fountain Press, Bridel
