| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 403 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Manikin -- City boy -- Crossbones -- Sticks and stones -- Deal -- Intimations -- Making changes -- Mildred -- Fingers and toes -- Isaac -- Green thought -- Finn -- Going places -- Murderers -- Eating out -- Getting lucky -- Storytellers, liars, and bores -- In the fifties -- Reflections of a wild kid -- Downers -- Trotsky's garden -- Annabella's hat -- I would have saved them if I could -- Hello Jack -- Some laughed -- Captain -- Journal -- Honeymoon -- Girl with a monkey -- Tell me everything -- Viva la Tropicana -- Nachman -- Nachman from Los Angeles -- Nachman at the races -- Penultimate conjecture -- Nachman burning -- Of mystery there is no end -- Cryptology. |
| Summary |
Readers coming to Michaels's work for the first time will find the early, pointed stories as well as some of his later works that have never been collected. Michaels's early stories are written with a frantic sexuality that displays his distinctive dark humor. In "Fingers and Toes," recurring characters Henry and Phillip weigh the value of their friendship against their encounters with the same woman through a set of urban hallucinations characteristic of the early stories. |
| Subject |
Short stories.
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01117043
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| Added Title |
Short stories
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| ISBN |
9780374126544 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
|
0374126542 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780374126544 |
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