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"The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called 'folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,' and these forty new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny."--Publisher website. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Beauty, love and vanity itself
- Gray pottery head
- Cinch
- Gulls
- To revive a person is no slight thing
- Head of naked girl
- Rhapsody breeze
- Lavatory
- People of the week
- Romantic life
- Great passion and its context
- Specialist
- Poet
- At a period of exceptional dullness
- Head of the big man
- Living deluxe
- Personal details
- Flying things
- How blown up
- Sigh
- There is always a hesitation before turning in a finished job
- Mermaid pose
- Greed
- Clarinda
- Skol
- Thickening wish
- Lamb chops, cod
- Of the true and final good
- Glimpses of Mrs. Williams
- Girl with a pencil
- Perform small tasks
- With red chair
- Try
- Removal men
- Mere flask poured out
- Bang bang on the stair
- Little bottle of tears
- When I was old and ugly
- Palm against palm
- Human comb.