Short Stories - Five Decades

Informationen zum Autor Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He is the playwright of Bury the Dead , and the author of twelve novels, among them Rich Man , Poor Man , The Troubled Air , Nightwork , Acceptable Losses , Evening in Byzantium and The Young Lions , the last published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers. Zusammenfassung This volume features 63 short stories spanning five decades including "Girls in their Summer Dresses"! "Sailor Off the Bremen" and "The Eighty-Yard Run".

Product details

• Authors: Irwin Shaw
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2000
• EAN: 9780226751283
• ISBN: 978-0-226-75128-3
• No. of pages: 764
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction S.; Phoenix Fiction Series PF (CHUP); Phoenix Fiction Series PF
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature