The astronomer, and other stories.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Description: All but one of these seven stories and one novella take place in small towns in North Carolina, and all of them concern ordinary people teetering upon the knowledge of their own insignificance. First published in 1965, this second collection of short fiction by Doris Betts evinces her breathtaking mastery of the genre.
Table of contents: title: The spies in the herb house.- The mandarin.- Clarissa and the depths.- The dead mule.- The proud and virtuous.- All that glisters isn't gold.- Careful, sharp eggs under foot.- The astronomer.