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Scar Vegas / stories by Tom Paine.
LIBRA PS3566.A342 S33 2000 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paine, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 215 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvest edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt, [2000]
- Summary:
- An anthology of stories dealing with moral choices. In Ceausescu's Cat, two brothers in Romania, one a thief, the other a poet, strike a blow for freedom in different ways, General Markman's Last Stand, is on a cross-dressing general, while in A Predictable Nightmare on the Eve of the Stock Market Breaking 6,000, a cocky financier is cut down to size.
- Contents:
- Will you say something, Monsieur Eliot?
- General Markman's last stand
- Scar Vegas
- Unapproved minutes of the Carthage, Vermont Zoning Board of Adjustment
- The spoon children
- The hotel on Monkey Forest Road
- Ceauşescu's cat
- The mayor of St. John
- A predictable nightmare on the eve of the stock market breaking 6,000
- The battle of Khafji.
- Notes:
- "A Harvest book.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Paine, Tom. Scar Vegas.
- ISBN:
- 0156014203
- 9780156014205
- 0151004897
- 9780151004898
- OCLC:
- 45878835
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