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Author O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-2000.

Title The rendezvous and other stories / Patrick O'Brian.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, 1994.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  O'BRIAN, PATRICK    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 249 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Twenty-seven stories on subjects ranging from solitude to unhappy marriages, to sports. The Last Pool is on a fisherman's battle with a salmon, while Lying in the Sun paraphrases a husband's innermost thoughts as he sunbathes with his wife: If only she would go away he would be quite fond of her. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.
Contents The return -- The happy despatch -- The dawn flighting -- Not liking to pass the road again -- The slope of the high mountain -- The little death -- The Passeur -- The tunnel at the frontier -- The path -- The walker -- The soul -- Lying in the sun -- Billabillian -- The rendezvous -- The stag at bay -- Samphire -- The clockmender -- The Chian wine -- The virtuous Peleg -- A passage of the frontier -- The voluntary patient -- The long day running -- On the bog -- The lemon -- The last pool -- The handmaiden -- On the Wolfsberg.
Subject Manners and customs -- Fiction.
ISBN 0393036855
0393313808 paperback
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