Short stories : five decades

Shaw, Irwin 1913-1984 (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0440041473
ISBN: 9780440041474
Physical Description: print
848 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 1978.

Contents / Notes

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The eighty-yard run -- Borough of cemeteries -- Main currents of American thought -- Second mortgage -- Sailor off the Bremen -- Strawberry ice cream soda -- Welcome to the city -- The girls in their summer dresses -- Search through the streets of the city -- The monument -- I stand by Dempsey -- God on Friday night -- Return to Kansas City -- Triumph of justice -- No jury would convict -- The lament of Madame Rechevsky -- The deputy sheriff -- Stop pushing, Rocky -- "March, march on down the field" -- Free conscience, void of offence -- Weep in years to come -- The city was in total darkness -- Night, birth and opinion -- Preach on the dusty roads -- Hamlets of the world -- Medal from Jerusalem -- Walking wounded -- Night in Algiers -- Gunners' passage -- Retreat -- Act of faith -- The man with one arm -- The passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins -- The dry rock -- Noises in the city --