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The rendezvous and other stories
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The rendezvous and other stories

Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1994.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
Summary: Twenty-seven stories on subjects ranging from solitude to unhappy marriages, to sports. The Last Pool is on a fisherman's battle with a salmon, while Lying in the Sun paraphrases a husband's innermost thoughts as he sunbathes with his wife: If only she would go away he would be quite fond of her. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 0393036855 9780393036855 0393313808 9780393313802
OCLC Number: 33047550
Description: 249 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The return -- The happy despatch -- The dawn flighting -- Not liking to pass the road again -- The slope of the high mountain -- The little death -- The Passeur -- The tunnel at the frontier -- The path -- The walker -- The soul -- Lying in the sun -- Billabillian -- The rendezvous -- The stag at bay -- Samphire -- The clockmender -- The Chian wine -- The virtuous Peleg -- A passage of the frontier -- The voluntary patient -- The long day running -- On the bog -- The lemon -- The last pool -- The handmaiden -- On the Wolfsberg.
Responsibility: Patrick O'Brian.

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Twenty-seven stories on subjects ranging from solitude to unhappy marriages, to sports. The Last Pool is on a fisherman's battle with a salmon, while Lying in the Sun paraphrases a husband's innermost thoughts as he sunbathes with his wife: If only she would go away he would be quite fond of her. By the author of The Wine-Dark Sea.

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