Writers Harvest, 2

A Collection of New Fiction

American Short storiesAmerican fictionSocial life and customsFictionManners and customsNouvelles américainesFiction, short stories (single author)American fiction (collections), 20th century

Eighteen stories featuring human quirks. In Life Prerecorded by Jill McCorkle, a pregnant woman has nightmares her baby will be deformed because of her smoking, but she continues smoking all the same, while in Po Bronson's The Impossible to Kill Me Game, a single mother's new boyfriend creates anxiety in her son who is afraid she will abandon him.

For young readers

Book data: Open Library