The escape of the faculty wife
Subtitle: and other stories
By: by Hugh Hawkins
Publisher: Small Batch Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amherst, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781937650285
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Spanning the decades from World War II to the Iraq War, then ten stories in this collection are grouped not by chronology, but by locale: campus, hilltown, barracks. One labled memoir, relies heavily on detailed recall. In the others, Hawkins has given his imagination free rein. While not, strictly speaking, history, the stories reveal something of the moods and emotions of the recent past, times alternately turbulent and tranquil.
Table of contents: title: Campus.; title: The escape of the faculty wife ;; title: The chair of good humor ;; title: After the lecture ;; title: A picture from the attic --; title: Hilltown.; title: Harry's mother ;; title: The historical tour ;; title: A day with bad news --; title: Barracks.; title: Letter from a troop train ;; title: Off to college with the GIs : a memoir ;; title: Why Lancaster re-upped.