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Emerald City

by Jennifer Egan

Manners and customsFictionYoung womenManners and customs -- Fiction.Fiction, short stories (single author)Fiction, general

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.

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Book data: Open Library