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Like you'd understand, anyway : stories / Jim Shepard

By:

Shepard, Jim

Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 211 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780307265210

Genre/Form:

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC SHE

Contents:

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

Abstract: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		026326

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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