"After the Fireworks is a major work and a turning point for Huxley,
leading directly to Brave New World." --Gary Giddins
In After the Fireworks, three lost classic pieces of short fiction
by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, are collected for the
first time, with an original foreword by National Book Critics Circle
Award winner Gary Giddins.
In the title novella, Rome is the stunning backdrop for a renowned
novelist's dangerous affair. "Uncle Spencer" is the "exquisite" (New
Statesman) tale of an aging World War I veteran's quest for the lost
love he met in a prison during the war, and "Two or Three Graces,"
"probably the thing nearest perfection of all that [Huxley] has done"
(New Statesman), recounts a destructive writer's abusive relationship
with an impressionable housewife. Now brought back in print for the
first time in seventy-five years, the novellas newly collected in After
the Fireworks reveal Aldous Huxley at the height of his powers.