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Fifty stories / Kay Boyle ; introduction by Louise Erdrich.
LIBRA - Special PS3503.O9357 A6 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992.
- Series:
- Revived modern classic
- A Revived modern classic
- New Directions paperbook
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 648 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- 50 stories.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1992.
- Summary:
- Kay Boyle's Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York, in occupied Germany, in California, Boyle has been an inspiration both as an exquisite stylist and as a chronicler of the nuances of human experience.
- Contents:
- Episode in the life of an ancestor
- Wedding day
- Rest cure
- Ben
- Kroy Wen
- Black boy
- Friend of the family
- White as snow
- Keep your pity
- Security
- Dear Mr. Walrus
- Rondo at Carraroe
- Natives don't cry
- Maiden, maiden
- The white horses of Vienna
- Count Lothar's heart
- Major Alshuster
- How Bridie's girl was won
- The herring piece
- Your body is a jewel box
- Major engagement in Paris
- Effigy of war
- Diplomat's wife
- Men
- They weren't going to die
- Defeat
- Let there be honour
- This they took with them
- Their name is macaroni
- French harvest
- Fire in the vineyards
- Hotel behind the lines
- Summer evening
- The criminal
- Fife's house
- The lovers of Gain
- Army of occupation
- Cabaret
- The kill
- A disgrace to the family
- The lost
- Adam's death
- Aufwiedersehen Abend
- A puzzled race
- The canals of Mars
- The loneliest man in the U.S. Army
- Winter night
- Evening at home
- The ballet of Central Park
- Seven say you can hear corn grow.
- ISBN:
- 0811212068
- 9780811212069
- OCLC:
- 24792723
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