| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 733 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Break it down (1986). Story -- Fears of Mrs. Orlando -- Liminal: the little man -- Break it down -- Mr. Burdoff's visit to Germany -- What she knew -- Fish -- Mildred and the oboe -- Mouse -- Letter -- Extracts from a life -- House plans -- Brother-in-law -- How W.H. Auden spends the night in a friend's house -- Mothers -- In a house besieged -- Visit to her husband -- Cockroaches in Autumn -- Bone -- Few things wrong with me -- Sketches for a life of Wassilly -- City employment -- Two sisters -- Mother -- Therapy -- French lesson I: Le meurtre -- Once a very stupid man -- Housemaid -- Cottages -- Safe love -- Problem -- What an old woman will wear -- The sock -- Five signs of distrubance -- |
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Almost no memory (1997). Meat, my husband -- Jack in the country -- Foucault and pencil -- Mice -- Thirteenth woman -- Professor -- Cedar trees -- Cats in the prison recreation hall -- Wife One in country -- Fish tank -- Center of the story -- Love -- Our kindness -- Natural disaster -- Odd behavior -- St. Martin -- Agreement -- In the Garment District -- Disagreement -- Actors -- What was interesting -- In the Everglades -- The family -- Trying to learn -- To reiterate -- Lord Royston's tour -- Other -- A friend of mine -- This condition -- Go away -- Pastor Elaine's newsletter -- Man in our town -- Second chance -- Fear -- Almost no memory -- Mr. Knockly -- How he is often right -- Rape of the Tanuk women -- What I feel -- Lost things -- Glen Gould -- Smoke -- From below, as a neighbor -- Great-grandmothers -- Ethics -- House behind -- Outing -- Position at the university -- Examples of confusion -- Race of the patient motorcyclists -- Affinity -- |
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Samuel Johnson is indignant (2001). Boring friends -- Mown lawn -- City people -- Betrayal -- White tribe -- Our trip -- Special chair -- Certain knowledge from Herodotus -- Priority -- Meeting -- Companion -- Blind date -- Examples of Remember -- Old Mother and the grouch -- Samuel Johnson is indignant: -- New Year's resolution -- First grade: handwriting practice -- Interesting -- Happiest moment -- Jury duty -- Double negative -- Old dictionary -- Honoring the subjunctive -- How difficult -- Losing memory -- Letter to a funeral parlor -- Thyroid diary -- Information from the North concerning the ice: -- Murder in Bohemia -- Happy memories -- They take turns using a word they like -- Marie Curie, so honorable woman -- Mir the Hessian -- My neighbors in a foreign place -- Oral history (with hiccups) -- Patient -- Right and wrong -- Alvin the Typesetter -- Special -- Selfish -- My husband and I -- Spring spleen -- Her damage -- Workingmen -- In a northern country -- Away from home -- Company -- Finances -- Transformation -- Two sisters (II) -- Furnace -- Young and poor -- Silence of Mrs. Iln -- Almost over: separate bedrooms -- Money -- |
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Varieties of disturbance (2007)-- Man from her past -- Dog and me -- Enlightened -- Man of good taste contest -- Collaboration with fly -- Kafka cooks dinner -- Tropical storm -- Good Times -- Idea for a short documentary film -- Forbidden subjects -- Two types -- Senses -- Grammar questions -- Hand -- Caterpillar -- Child care -- We miss you: a study of get-well letters from a class of fourth-graders -- Passing wind -- Television -- Jane and the cane -- Getting to know your body -- Absentminded -- Southward bound, reads Worstward Ho -- Walk -- Varieties of disturbance -- Lonely -- Mrs. D and her maids -- 20 sculptures in one hour -- Nietszche -- What you learn about the baby -- Her mother's mother -- How it is done -- Insomnia -- Burning family members -- Way to perfection -- Fellowship -- Helen and Vi: a study in health and vitality -- Reducing expenses -- Mother's reaction to my travel plans -- For sixty cents -- How shall I mourn them? -- Strange impulse -- How she could not drive -- Suddenly afraid -- Getting better -- Head, heart -- Strangers -- Busy road -- Order -- Fly -- Traveling with mother -- Index entry -- My son -- Example of the continuing past tense in a hotel room -- Cape Cod diary -- Almost over: what's the word? -- Different man. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9780374270605 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0374270600 hardcover alkaline paper |
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