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Children playing before a statue of Hercules / edited and introduced by David Sedaris.

Title
  1. Children playing before a statue of Hercules / edited and introduced by David Sedaris.
Published by
  1. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.

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Additional authors
  1. Sedaris, David
Description
  1. vi, 344 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. A collection of contemporary and classical short fiction works includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Subject
  1. Short stories, American
  2. Short stories, Commonwealth (English)
Genre/Form
  1. Short stories, American.
  2. Fictional Work
  3. Short stories, American
  4. Fiction
  5. Short stories
  6. Short stories.
  7. Romans.
Contents
  1. Oh, Joseph, I'm so tired / Richard Yates -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- The garden party / Katherine Mansfield -- Half a grapefruit / Alice Munro -- Applause, applause / Jean Thompson -- I know what I'm doing about all the attention I've been getting / Frank Gannon -- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith -- The best of Betty / Jincy Willett -- Song of the shirt, 1941 / Dorothy Parker -- The girl with the blackened eye / Joyce Carol Oates -- People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore -- Revelation / Flannery O'Connor -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma -- Irish girl / Tim Johnston -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Epilogue: about 826NYC / Sarah Vowell.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
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