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Emerald city : stories

Emerald city : stories

Egan, Jennifer, author.
Book 1996

Eleven stories on the vagaries of life. In Why China? a successful stockbroker yearns for the days when he was poor, in Passing the Hat, a wife observing a woman sleep around with men, is shocked to discover her own husband was one of them, while The Watch Trick compares the lives of two army friends, one who settled down, the other who didn't.

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ISBN:
9780385482127
0385482124
Edition:
First edition in the U.S.A
Description:
178 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
"An earlier version of this book was published in the United Kingdom by Picador"--T.p. verso
Contents:
Why China?
Sacred heart
Emerald city
The stylist
One piece
The watch trick
Passing the hat
Puerto Vallarta
Spanish winter
Letter to Josephine
Sisters of the moon
LCCN:
95035956 //r96
Control Number:
58072
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