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Tales of the Jazz Age
A master craftsman brings one of the most fascinating periods in American history to vivid life in these provocative and poignant short stories Born gray-haired and grumpy, Benjamin Button may be an infant, but his body and personality are those of an old man. Curiously, however, he grows younger with each passing year. Benjamin is aging backwards, which begs the question, when does a man become a man? And how do we recognize our true selves? A delightful fable that poses serious inquiries about the nature of existence, \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button\" is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known stories and the centerpiece of this legendary collection. From the Jazz Age decadence of \"May Day\" to the delightful fantasy of \"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,\" these evocative tales showcase one of the twentieth century's greatest authors at the height of his talent.
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When I was young in the mountains
Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.
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The lost art of dress : the women who once made America stylish
\"A tribute to a time when style--and maybe even life--felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers.\" -- Paris Review As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress.We lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and beautifully.
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Hum
A new collection of stories by bestselling author Michelle
Richmond,
Hum presents a cautionary political fable, a celebration
of the complexities of marriage, and a meditation on modern-day
alienation. Thirteen years after the publication of her first
story collection,
The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress ,
New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond
returns with Hum, a collection of ten stories that examine love,
lust, and loyalty from surprising angles. In “Hum,” a
young couple that is paid to live in a house filled with
surveillance equipment becomes “quietly lost to each
other,” as the wife’s infatuation with the subject of
their surveillance turns to obsession. In “Medicine,”
a woman grieving over the death of her sister finds her calling
as a manual medical caregiver. In “Boulevard,” a
couple who has been trying to have a child for seven years finds
themselves in an unnamed country at the height of a revolution,
summoned there by the enigmatic H. “Scales,” the
story of a woman who falls in love with a man whose body is
covered with scales, parses the intersection of pain and
pleasure. The narrator of “Lake” must choose whether
to walk in the footsteps of her famous grandfather, The Great
Amphibian, who disappeared while performing a feat of daring in
Lake Michigan. What does it mean to be heroic? How much should
one sacrifice in the name of love? These questions and more are
explored with tenderness, wit, and unerring precision in
Hum .
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