Point of departure
Subtitle: 19 stories of youth and discovery
By: edited by Robert S. Gold
Edition: New ed.
Series: Laurel-leaf books
Publisher: Dell Pub. Co.
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780440969839
Copyright date: 1967
Subjects: Adolescence; Fiction
Description: A collection of short stories by eighteen authors on the travails of adolescence and growing up.
Table of contents: title: The bike / by Alan Sillitoe; title: Split cherry tree / by Jesse Stuart; title: The white circle / by John Bell Clayton; title: The wishing well / by Phillip Bonosky; title: The finish of Patsy Barnes / by Paul Laurence Dunbar; title: A good long sidewalk / by William Melvin Kelley; title: Prelude / by Albert Halper; title: A & P / by John Updike; title: Phone call / by Berton Roueché; title: The first death of her life / by Elizabeth Taylor; title: A company of laughing faces / by Nadine Gordimer; title: The eclipse / by Elizabeth Enright; title: Seventeen / by William Saroyan; title: A summer's reading / by Bernard Malamud; title: Sucker / by Carson McCullers; title: Snowfall in childhood / by Ben Hecht; title: The sorcerer's eye / by Howard Nemerov; title: Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth / by John Updike; title: Ah, the university / by John Collier.