| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
viii, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Music to lay eggs by / Thomas Bridges -- Home is / Morris Lurie -- The road / Alan Sillitoe -- Summer voices / John Banville -- Making changes / Leonard Michaels -- My sister and me / Asa Baber Jr. -- Before the operation / Paul Breslow -- The collector / Austin C. Clarke -- Sing, Shaindele, sing / Jerome Charyn -- Black barbecue / Daniel Spicehandler -- The adult education class / Malcolm Bradbury -- During the Jurassic / John Updike -- Acme rooms and sweet Marjorie Russell / Hugh Allyn Hunt -- The zodiacs / Jay Neugeboren -- Dying / Joyce Carol Oates -- The redhead / Penelope Gilliatt -- Girl in a white dress / Edward Franklin -- Changed / Norma Meacock. |
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A meeting in middle age / William Trevor -- The world's fastest human / Irvin Faust -- The siege / Sol Yurick -- The enemy / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Simple arithmetic / Virginia Moriconi -- The hyena / Paul Bowles -- The fair of San Gennaro / John McPhee -- Ismael / Alfred Chester -- François Yattend / Jean-Claude van Itallie -- The star blanket / Shirley Schoonover -- A game of catch / George Garrett -- The educated girl / V. S. Pritchett -- Johnny Dio and the sugar plum burglars / Harry D. MIller -- At home with the Colonel / Frank Tuohy -- A different thing / Walter Clemons -- The ice cream eat / William Goldman. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, English.
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| Added Title |
Transatlantic review.
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| ISBN |
0030845246 |
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9780030845246 |
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