| Description |
xi, 1040 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 188
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Library of America ; 188.
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| Note |
"Blake Bailey wrote the chronology and notes for this volume." |
| Contents |
Goodbye, my brother -- Common day -- Enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- Hartleys -- Sutton Place story -- Summer farmer -- Torch song -- Pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- Season of divorce -- Chaste Clarissa -- Cure -- Superintendent -- Children -- Sorrows of gin -- O youth and beauty! -- Day the pig fell into the well -- Five-forty-eight -- Just one more time -- Housebreaker of Shady Hill -- Bus to St. James's -- Worm in the apple -- Trouble of Marcie Flint -- Bella lingua -- Wrysons -- Country husband -- Duchess -- Scarlet moving van -- Just tell me who it was -- Brimmer -- Golden age -- Lowboy -- Music teacher -- A woman without a country -- Death of Justina -- Clementina -- Boy in Rome -- A miscellany of characters that will not appear -- Chimera -- Seaside houses -- Angel of the bridge -- Brigadier and the golf widow -- A vision of the world -- Reunion -- An educated American woman -- Metamorphoses -- Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin -- Montraldo -- Ocean -- Marito in città -- Geometry of love -- Swimmer -- World of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- Fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well-digger -- Three stories -- Jewels of the Cabots -- Summer theatre -- Forever hold your peace -- Of love: a testimony -- Brothers -- Publick house -- When grandmother goes -- These tragic years -- Expelled -- Autobiography of a drummer -- In passing -- Play a march -- Town house -- Roseheath -- National pastime -- What happened -- Moving out -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Melancholy of distance -- On Saul Bellow -- Why I write short stories -- My friend, Malcolm Cowley |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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| Subject |
American essays.
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American essays. |
| Added Author |
Bailey, Blake.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 2009 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009098256
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| ISBN |
9781598530346 |
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1598530348 |
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