“It’s incredibly unusual to find a book this good that has been this profoundly forgotten,” said a literary agent who rediscovered Kay Dick’s novella “They.” “That almost never happens.”
Web site, which she sometimes trawls in search of forgotten writers. Dick’s obituary was enticing for its rudeness: “a talented woman bedevilled by ingratitude and a kind of manic desire to avenge totally imaginary wrongs.”
“They,” which is being republished on February 3rd by Faber, in Britain, and by McNally Editions, in the United States, takes place during an obscure, English descent into mass conformity and philistinism. Unnamed figures—they—patrol the streets and beaches, looking for signs of difference and of artistic stirrings: people who choose to live alone or paint or have noticeable feelings. “Nonconformity is an illness,” a surviving potter, named Rick, observes.
Candida Lacey, one of Dick’s literary executors, met her at a publishing party in the eighties. “She was wearing a sort of long, black operatic gown,” Lacey said. “She swept me up and said, ‘Oh, darling, you live in Brighton. You must come and have cucumber sandwiches for tea.’ ” At the time, Dick was finding it hard to produce anything. She was rumored to have accepted two contracts to write a biography of Colette, but fulfilled neither. “I think people were wary of her,” Lacey said.
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