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008			210413s20102010nyc 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781590172872
082	1		_aFIC HAR _2
100	1		_aHardwick, Elizabeth
245	1	4	_aThe New York stories of Elizabeth Hardwick _c/ Elizabeth Hardwick ; selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2010
300			_a224 p. _c; 21 cm
490	1		_aNew York Review Books classics
505	0	0	_aThe temptations of Dr. Hoffman -- Evenings at home -- Yes and no -- The final conflict -- A season's romance -- The oak and the axe -- The classless society -- The purchase -- Cross-town -- The bookseller -- Back issues -- On the eve -- Shot : a New York story.
520			_aThis first collection of Hardwick's short fiction reveals a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life. A young woman returns from New York to her childhood Kentucky home and discovers the world of difference within her. A girl's boyfriend is not quite good enough, his "silvery eyes, light and cool, revealing nothing except pure possibility, like a coin in hand." A magazine editor's life falls strangely to pieces after she loses both her husband and her job. Individual lives and the life of New York, the setting or backdrop for most of these stories, are strikingly and memorably depicted in Hardwick's beautiful and razor-sharp prose.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aShort stories
700	1		_aPinckney, Darryl _d(1953 -)
700	1		_aCalvino, Italo
942			_cMO
999			_c241252 _d241252