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The astronomer and other stories.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.E84 A83 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Betts, Doris.
- Series:
- Voices of the South
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- LSU Press edition.
- Other Title:
- Astronomer.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- All but one of these seven stories and one novella take place in small towns in North Carolina, and all of them concern ordinary people teetering upon the knowledge of their own insignificance. First published in 1965, this second collection of short fiction by Doris Betts evinces her breathtaking mastery of the genre.
- Contents:
- The spies in the herb house
- The mandarin
- Clarissa and the depths
- The dead mule
- The proud and virtuous
- All that glisters isn't gold
- Careful, sharp eggs under foot
- The astronomer.
- ISBN:
- 0807120103
- OCLC:
- 32501630
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