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Book

The complete stories.

Call Number

  • FICTION OCON (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1971]

Physical Description

xvii, 555 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

  • The geranium
  • The barber
  • Wildcat
  • The crop
  • The turkey
  • The train
  • The peeler
  • The heart of the park
  • A stroke of good fortune
  • Enoch and the gorilla
  • A good man is hard to find
  • A late encounter with the enemy
  • The life you save may be your own
  • The river
  • A circle in the fire
  • The displaced person
  • A temple of the Holy Ghost
  • The artificial nigger
  • Good country people
  • You can't be any poorer than dead
  • Greenleaf
  • A view of the woods
  • The enduring chill
  • The comforts of home
  • Everything that rises must converge
  • The partridge festival
  • The lame shall enter first
  • Why do the heathen rage?
  • Revelation
  • Parker's back
  • Judgement Day.

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