| Description |
326 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A William Abrahams book." |
| Contents |
Act of solitude -- You petted me, and I followed you home -- Good to know you -- Revenge of the foot, 1970 -- Politics -- Missing person -- Will you always love me? -- Life after high school -- Goose-girl -- American, abroad -- Track -- Handclasp -- Girl who was to die -- June birthing -- Undesirable table -- Is laughter contagious? -- Brothers -- Lost child -- Christmas night 1962 -- Passion of Rydcie Mather -- Vision -- Mark of Satan. |
| Summary |
Twenty-two stories. In The Goose Girl, a respectable suburban housewife helps her son with his sexual ambitions toward a neighbor, in The Mark of Satan, a woman evangelist working door-to-door becomes the object of a convict's desire, and in Good to Know You, couples discover how little they know each other. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0525939725 alkaline paper |
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