Like you'd understand, anyway : stories

Shepard, Jim

Like you'd understand, anyway : stories / Jim Shepard - 1st ed - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2007. - 211 p. ; 22 cm.

The zero meter diving team -- Proto-scorpions of the Silurian -- Hadrian's wall -- Trample the dead, hurdle the weak -- Ancestral legacies -- Pleasure boating in Lituya Bay -- The first South Central Australian expedition -- My Aeschylus -- Eros 7 -- Courtesy for beginners -- Sans farine

In his first all new collection of short fiction in more than ten years, the author of Project X presents eleven stories that range across time and geography to offer portraits of the first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, a compassionate executioner in Revolutionary Paris whose job forces a crisis in conscience, and a middle-aged Aeschylus still seeking parental approval.

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