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Author: Joan Silber
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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This collection of interconnected stories begins with the anarchist daughter of missionaries in Manhattan who runs away to be an activist and ends with a wealthy young adulterer in Paris who is outsmarted by the object of his desire.
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Genre/Form: Short stories
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joan Silber
ISBN: 9780393088700 0393088707
OCLC Number: 827724222
Awards: National Book Award Longlist, 2013
Description: 255 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: Fools --
The hanging fruit --
Two opinions --
Better --
Going too far --
Buying and selling.
Other Titles: Short stories.
Responsibility: Joan Silber.

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This collection of interconnected stories begins with the anarchist daughter of missionaries in Manhattan who runs away to be an activist and ends with a wealthy young adulterer in Paris who is outsmarted by the object of his desire.

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