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Book

The accomplished guest : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION BEAT (CEN)

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scribner, 2017.

Physical Description

xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, this collection of stories explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging"--

Contents

  • The Indian uprising
  • For the best
  • The astonished woodchopper
  • Anecdotes
  • Other people's birthdays
  • Company
  • The debt
  • Lady Neptune
  • The caterer
  • The gypsy chooses the whatever card
  • The cloud
  • Hoodie in Xanadu
  • Save a horse ride a cowgirl.

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