Life times : stories, 1952-2007 /
A collection of short fictional works offers insight into the author's use of rich language to convey themes ranging from politics and sexuality to race and family life, in a volume that includes such pieces as "Friday's Footprint" and "Something Out There."
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The soft voice of the serpent
- The amateurs
- Six feet of the country
- Face from Atlantis
- Which new era would that be?
- The smell of death and flowers
- Not for publication
- Through time and distance
- A chip of glass ruby
- Some Monday for sure
- Friday's footprint
- The bridegroom
- Livingstone's companions
- Why haven't you written?
- Open house
- A meeting in space
- Rain-queen
- Town and country lovers
- A soldier's embrace
- For dear life
- Oral history
- A lion on the freeway
- At the rendezvous of victory
- Letter from his father
- Something out there
- Once upon a time
- The moment before the gun went off
- The ultimate safari
- A find
- Loot
- The generation gap
- Look-alikes
- The diamond mine
- Tape measure
- Dreaming of the dead
- Beethoven was one-sixteenth black
- Parking tax
- Second coming.