Record details

• ISBN: 0020408919
• ISBN: 9780020408918
• Physical Description: xxix, 621 pages ; 24 cm
• Edition: First Collier Books Edition.
• Publisher: New York : Collier Books ; 1989.
• Copyright: ©1987

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

An angel on the porch -- The train and the city -- Death the proud brother -- No door -- The four lost men -- Room town -- The sun and the rain -- The house of the far and lost -- Dark in the forest, strange as time -- For professional appearance -- The names of the nation -- One of the girls in our party -- Circus at dawn -- His father's earth -- Old Catawba -- Arnold Pentland -- The face of the war -- Gulliver, the story of a tall man -- In the park -- Only the dead know Brooklyn -- Polyphemus -- The far and the near -- The bums at sunset -- The bell remembered -- Fame and the poet -- Return -- Mr. Malone -- Oktoberfest -- 'E, a recollection -- April, late April -- The child by tiger -- Katamoto -- The lost boy -- Chickamauga -- The company -- A prologue to America -- Portrait of a literary critic -- The birthday -- A note on experts: Dexter Vespasian Joyner -- Three o'clock -- The winter of our discontent -- The dark Messiah --

The hollyhock sowers -- Nebraska Crane -- So this is man -- The promise of America -- The hollow men -- The anatomy of loneliness -- The lion at morning -- The plumed knight -- The newspaper -- No cure for it -- On leprechauns -- The return of the prodigal -- Old man rivers -- Justice is blind -- No more rivers -- The Spanish letter.

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Subject:

Authors, American > North Carolina.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.