Loving Wanda Beaver
Subtitle: novella and stories
By: by Alison Baker.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Description: In a world that has quietly and unexpectedly gone tilt, the delightful, engaging characters in these stories and novella find their own way to regain equilibrium. A processing clerk at the Institute for the Study of American Sexual Appetite, Library of Desire section, longs for the attentions of a summer corn detasseler in "Loving Wanda Beaver," the irresistible and unpredictable title story that has also been selected for Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards.

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