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The reasons I won't be coming : stories / Elliot Perlman.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.P3619 R43 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perlman, Elliot.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Australia.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Riverhead Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- The nine smart, thoughtful stories in this collection explore the complex worlds of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students, and murderers. They tell of corporate betrayals and lost opportunities, and the hopes, fears, and vagaries of desire.
- Contents:
- Good morning, again
- In the time of the dinosaur
- Your niece's speech night
- The reasons I won't be coming
- Manslaughter
- The Hong Kong fir doctrine
- I was only in a childish way connected to the established order
- Spitalnic's last year
- A tale of two cities.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1573223212
- OCLC:
- 60373318
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