| Description |
1040 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 188 |
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Library of America ; 188.
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| Note |
"Blake Bailey wrote the chronology and notes for this volume." |
| Contents |
Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- The Hartleys -- The Sutton Place story -- The summer farmer -- Torch song -- The pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- The season of divorce -- The chaste Clarissa -- The cure -- The superintendent -- The children -- The sorrows of gin -- O youth and beauty! -- The day the pig fell into the well -- The five-forty-eight -- Just one more time -- The housebreaker of Shady Hill -- The bus to St. James's -- The worm in the apple -- The trouble of Marcie Flint -- The bella lingua -- The Wrysons -- The country husband -- The duchess -- The scarlet moving van -- Just tell me who it was -- Brimmer -- The golden age -- The lowboy -- The music teacher -- A woman without a country -- The death of Justina -- Clementina -- Boy in Rome -- A miscellany of characters that will not appear -- The chimera -- The seaside houses -- The angel of the bridge -- The brigadier and the golf widow -- A vision of the world -- Reunion -- An educated American woman -- Metamorphoses -- Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin -- Montraldo -- The ocean -- Marito in città -- The geometry of love -- The swimmer -- The world of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- The fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well-digger -- Three stories -- The jewels of the Cabots -- Summer theatre -- Forever hold your peace -- Of love: a testimony -- The brothers -- Publick house -- When grandmother goes -- These tragic years -- Expelled -- The autobiography of a drummer -- In passing -- Play a march -- Town house -- Roseheath -- The national pastime -- What happened -- Moving out -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The melancholy of distance -- On Saul Bellow -- Why I write short stories -- My friend, Malcolm Cowley. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Bailey, Blake.
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| ISBN |
9781598530346 |
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1598530348 |
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