Sassoon's Sketches: Second Edition

Andrea Sagan was an active sort of girl. On the march, and on the go, here one minute and gone the next. Andrea was a popular girl. Which party was she going to tonight? She'd received six marriage proposals already, and she just turned twenty-five. Andrea was well traveled, been to Europe, three times in fact, to Spain and its warm beaches, to France and its Riviera, played in Italy following the flow of Venetian canals, and journeyed into the Orient, Hong Kong, Japan, even Taiwan where she lived for a time. And, Andrea was successful career-wise. As a freelance writer, the popular women's magazines were splattered with her articles on fitness and health. And, she was busily engaged in teaching writing at a prestigious private university. She was beautiful, beautiful all the way, with a well-proportioned body, hair a wonderful chestnut color and long, a reddish complexion, and gorgeous hazel eyes. There was a certain poise, sureness of movement there that made the lady extraordinary. So begins "Two Lives Given, Why?" one of Elias Sassoon's thirty-seven short stories in Sassoon's Sketches. Sassoon is often humorous, usually thoughtful, and always entertaining in these enchanting short tales.