Short Stories
by Stanislas M. Yassukovich
GENRE: Fiction
PUBLICATION DATE: 06/30/2021
DESCRIPTION:
In this collection of short stories, Stanislas M. Yassukovich has indulged his taste for nostalgic reverie. The tales are inspired by the people and places the author has encountered during a lifetime spent in cosmopolitan circles. The quirks of fate that move people from an apparently predestined course of life have provoked his imagination. Stanislas has drawn on a variety of conditions and personalities to colour his stories with the shades and lights of human existence. Pursuing a distinguished career as an international investment banker, Stanislas found relief from the pressures of business by writing fiction. He makes no apology for the fact that his characters and their settings invoke past times; the joys and disappointments described are common to all humankind. Stanislas has sought to convey his own view of life’s vagaries through a stylistic prose which is itself reminiscent of writers of former times. The reader will find that the author’s evocations linger on.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Stanislas M. Yassukovich was born in Paris to a Russian émigré father and a French mother. After being educated in the United States, he settled in England, pursued a career in the City of London and is regarded as one of the founders of the international capital market. He was made a Commander of the British Empire and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the City of London. His previous works, Two Lives: A Social and Financial Memoir, Lives of the Luberon and James Grant were published by Austin Macauley in 2016 and 2020. He is married to the former Diana Townsend and has three children.
REVIEWS:
“His sharp eye and ear perfectly capture the attitudes and language of his characters, who are typically disaffected members of the American upper classes coming to terms with the absurdity and frustrations of their lives.” — Amazon reviewer
“A thoroughly satisfying depiction of a vanishing sliver of privilege, these gentle, bittersweet tales are a perfect antidote to our present-day brass-knuckled culture. Measured prose, memorable characters and sharply drawn scenes frame the author's acknowledged wistful nostalgia.” — Amazon reviewer