The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady and the Van (Paperback)

from apartmentcarpet

I love the premise of the first story. A couple returns home to find that everything they own has been stolen. They must re-examine their lives and how much of themselves has been invested in their belongings. Near the end, the story abruptly becomes slightly ridiculous, but it's a kind of modern...

from gbelik

Just for the fun of it.... 1. A couple resets their life after they return from the opera to find literally all of their possessions gone in a burglary. 2. Alan Bennett deals with a cantankerous old woman who has settled herself on the street in front of his house.

from SirRoger

The first story is witty, funny, original. It could almost be a screenplay. The second is true, and also funny, but with the absurd hilarity involved when people are a bit crazy. They both deal with the topic of material possessions, and what they should or shouldn't mean to us.

from varwenea

A nifty book with two tales to tell - both charming in their own ways, both featuring a strong female protagonist, both offer lessons if you care to mind them, both address possessions in our lives, yet one is fiction spanning a few short months, while the other is a non-fiction involving none ot...

from zina

charming and thought-provoking