Title: The Pacific and other stories /
Authors: Helprin, Mark.
Publisher: Penguin Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Helprin, Mark.; New York Yankees (Baseball team) Fiction.; Short stories Collections.; Literature Collections; War stories Fiction.; Novelists.; Opera; Romance fiction
Abstract: Sixteen stories feature such characters as a British paratrooper on a mission behind enemy lines, a teenage Hasidic Jew who joins the 1958 Yankees, and a September 11th widow who receives a gift from the contractor working on her apartment.
Contents: Il colore ritrovato -- Reconstruction -- Monday -- A brilliant idea and his own -- Vandevere's house -- Prelude -- Perfection -- Sidney Balbion -- Mar nueva -- Rain --Passchendaele -- Jacob Bayer and the telephone -- Sail shining in white -- Charlotte of the Utrechtseweg -- Last tea with the armorers -- The Pacific.