Short Stories: Five DecadesOpen Road Media, 26 févr. 2013 - 756 pages A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker’s fiction pages in the 1930s and ’40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as “The Eighty-Yard Run,” a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and “Main Currents in American Thought,” in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw’s writing —as demonstrated in these pages—maintains the clear-eyed moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher’s soul. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate. |
Table des matières
Strawberry Ice Cream Soda | |
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses | |
Search Through the Streets of the City | |
The Monument | |
Act of Faith | |
The Man with One | |
The Passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins | |
The Dry Rock | |
Noises in the City | |
The Indian in Depth of Night | |
A Year to Learn the Language | |
The Climate of Insomnia | |
Return to Kansas City | |
No Jury Would Convict | |
Stop Pushing Rocky | |
March March on Down the Field | |
The City Was in Total Darkness | |
Preach on the Dusty Roads | |
Gunners Passage | |
The Inhabitants of Venus | |
Then We Were Three | |
God Was Here But He Left Early | |
Whispers in Bedlam | |
Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend | |
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