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050 00 $aPS3569.T2$bA6 2005
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100 1 $aStafford, Jean,$d1915-1979.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50053704
240 10 $aShort stories$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005023998
245 14 $aThe collected stories of Jean Stafford.
250 $aFarrar, Straus and Giroux pbk. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2005.
300 $axix, 487 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"FSG classics"--Cover.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rJoyce Carol Oates -- $tThe innocents abroad -- $tMaggie Meriwether's rich experience -- $tThe children's game -- $tThe echo and the nemesis -- $tThe maiden -- $tA modest proposal -- $tCaveat emptor -- $tThe Bostonians, and other manifestations of the American scene -- $tLife is no abyss -- $tThe hope chest -- $tPolite conversation -- $tA country love story -- $tThe bleeding heart -- $tThe Lippia Lawn -- $tThe interior castle -- $tCowboys and Indians, and magic mountains -- $tThe healthiest girl in town -- $tThe tea time of stouthearted ladies -- $tThe mountain day -- $tThe darkening moon -- $tBad characters -- $tIn the zoo -- $tThe liberation -- $tA reading problem -- $tA summer day -- $tThe philosophy lesson -- $tManhattan Island -- $tChildren are bored on Sunday -- $tBeatrice Trueblood's story -- $tBetween the porch and the altar -- $tI love someone -- $tCops and robbers -- $tThe captain's gift -- $tThe end of a career -- $tAn influx of poets.
520 1 $a"Written from the 1940s through the 1960s, these stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford wrote of men and, especially, women alone and adrift in New York City in such stories as "Children Are Bored on Sunday"; of children surrounded by the harshness of rural Colorado and of the adults around them in "In the Zoo"; and of a young woman from Nashville bewildered and then angered by her first experience of petty French society in "Maggie Meriwether's Rich Experience." Employing a spare style that is sometimes distant, sometimes ironic, sometimes unexpectedly sharp or hilarious, Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only capture the lives of her protagonists but also convey with an elegant economy of words the places and times in which they find themselves." "This volume also includes the acclaimed story "An Influx of Poets," which has never before appeared in book form."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100003
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047705-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047705-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005047705-t.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS3569.T2$iA6 2005
852 00 $bglx$hPS3569.T2$iA6 2005