| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 506 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Contents |
Djinn -- Defenseman -- The Caul -- The fisherman -- Firewood -- Quality time -- The lie -- Indisposed -- The child screams and looks back at you -- Sarah Cole: a type of love story -- Assisted living -- The neighbor -- The rise of the middle class -- The burden -- Mistake -- Plains of Abraham -- Theory of flight -- Comfort -- Success story -- Cow-cow -- With Ché in New Hampshire -- Dis Bwoy, Him Gwan -- The fish -- The Moor -- Searching for survivors -- Black man and white woman in dark green rowboat -- Xmas -- The guinea pig lady -- Queen for a day -- The visit -- Lobster night. |
| Summary |
Broad in scope and rich in imagination, this new collection by the author of "Affliction" and "The Sweet Hereafter" includes the best of his previous anthologies, newly revised, plus nine new short stories. |
| Subject |
Fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
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| ISBN |
0060173963 |
|
9780060173968 |
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