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Nights in the gardens of Brooklyn : the collected stories of Harvey Swados / preface by Grace Paley ; introduction by Robin Swados.
LIBRA PS3569.W2 N54 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swados, Harvey.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 406 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- These stories offer a clear-eyed reckoning with life's contradictions, losses, and consolations: a professor's wife loses her connection to her husband but rediscovers herself; a boy who idolizes his uncle learns about human fallibility; and in the celebrated title novella, a generation of post-war idealists in New York come to terms with a country increasingly divided against itself.
- Contents:
- Nights in the gardens of Brooklyn
- A glance in the mirror
- A question of loneliness
- A chance encounter
- A handful of ball-points, a heartful of love
- The letters
- Year of grace
- The peacocks of Avignon
- The man in the toolhouse
- The dancer
- A story for Teddy
- Something a little special
- Bobby Shafter's gone to sea
- Where does your music come from?
- A hot day in Nuevo Laredo
- Claudine's book
- Tease
- The hack
- The balcony
- My Coney Island uncle
- The tree of life.
- ISBN:
- 1590170849
- OCLC:
- 53967030
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