Emerald city
Subtitle: stories
By: Jennifer Egan.
Edition: 1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Publisher: N.A. Talese
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Manners and customs -- Fiction.
Description: Eleven stories on the vagaries of life. In Why China? a successful stockbroker yearns for the days when he was poor, in Passing the Hat, a wife observing a woman sleep around with men, is shocked to discover her own husband was one of them, while The Watch Trick compares the lives of two army friends, one who settled down, the other who didn't. By the author of The Invisible Circus.
Notes: "An earlier version of this book was published in the United Kingdom by Picador"--T.p. verso.