Wild Cherry Tree

First published in 1968, The Wild Cherry Tree is a late collection of ten tales including comic vignettes, a humorous celebration of the sensual life, and several explorations of love, loneliness, and problematic relationships.

''The Wild Cherry Tree'' sees the wife of a pig-farmer who dresses like a ''shabby, straddling scarecrow'' as she tends her pigs by day, but, alone in the evenings, adorns ...