Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. There is an extremely slight backwards slant to spine of book. Text pages clean & bright. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a very good copy. --This collection brings together the very best of his work in short fiction. THe stories take place variously in Vietnam, Washington, the Midwest, and Europe; they are worldly stories in the best sense of the term, and also consumately American--. Stories included are: Honor, Power, Riches, Fame and the Love of Women, I'm Worried about You, Journalism, The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert, Burns, Noone, Prime Evening Time, A Guide to the Architecture of Washington D.C., D, The Short War of Mr. and Mrs. Conner, Journal of a Plague Year, Cease-Fire, A Man at the Top of his Trade, Dietz at War, About Boston, Maintenance, A Guide to the Geography of Vermont, The North Shore, The Costa Brava, A Woman of Character, and, She's not Dead, Belle.

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