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Why men are afraid of women : stories / by Francois Camoin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Camoin, Francois Andre, 1939-
- Series:
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
- The Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (163 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The tie that binds men and women, that makes men do absurd things that they will very likely be sorry for later, is at the center of this prize-winning collection of stories. There is, for example, Jack Segal, who is thirty-six and who owns a record store on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica and who has fallen in love-badly and madly in love-with the fourteen-yearold daughter of his friend Katzman. Segal can't think. He eats, but it doesn't taste like anything. He drives the freeways, floats above the city lights, and finds himself almost wishing that the Great Quake would come and solve everyth
- Contents:
- Miami
- It could happen
- Peacock blue
- Diehl, the wandering years
- A special case
- Home is the Blue Moon Cafe
- The Amelia barons
- A hunk of burning love
- La vida
- Cheerful wisdom
- Sometimes the wrong thing is the right thing.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-4589-X
- OCLC:
- 851695537
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