The Clothes They Stood Up In
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The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'.
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Two long short stories are in this
quirky little book. In The Clothes
They Stood Up In, a couple come home
to find that every single item in
their home, down to the last roll of
toilet paper, has been stolen. The
Lady in the Van keeps all her
possessions in a van she has parked
for fifteen years. How are our
possessions important in our lives?
How do they shape who we are?
