The Law of Averages
Subtitle: New and Selected Stories
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: July 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781582431574
Subjects: Short Stories (single author); Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction-Short Stories (single author); Humorous stories, American
First sentence: YOU WATCH the pretty salesgirl slide a box of Halston soap onto a low shelf, watch her braid slip off her shoulder, watch like an adolescent as the vent at the neck of her blouse opens slightly - she is twenty, maybe twenty-two, tan, and greatly freckled.