| Edition |
First edition. |
| Descript |
285 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Complainers -- Air mail -- Baster -- Early music -- Timeshare -- Find the bad guy -- The oracular vulva -- Capricious gardens -- Great experiment -- Fresh complaint. |
| Summary |
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. |
| Genre |
Short stories.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
0374203067 (hardcover) |
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9780374203061 (hardcover) |
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