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Book

Tenth of December : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION SAUN (OSH)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Random House, c2013.

Physical Description

251 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary

A collection of stories which includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.

Contents

  • Victory lap
  • Sticks
  • Puppy
  • Escape from Spiderhead
  • Exhortation
  • Al Roosten
  • The semplica girl diaries
  • Home
  • My chivalric fiasco
  • Tenth of December.