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Rare and modern books

Petrakis,Harry Mark

Collected Stories

Lake View Press, 1986

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Year of publication
1986
ISBN
0941702235
Place of printing
Chicago
Author
Petrakis,Harry Mark
Publishers
Lake View Press
Edition
First Thus
Keyword
SHORT STORIES GREEKS IN AMERICA FICTION CHICAGO GREEK AMERICAN, WRITERS
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction, establishing him as a master of the form. Revealing commentaries by the author introduce each story in this collection.In The Passing of the Ice, Polish icemen suffer the fate of some great doomed Greek line. In The Song of Rhodanthe a fleeting vision of love flowers within a grim social prison. In The journal of a Wife Beater an insufferable chauvinist male discovers to his horror and bodily peril, that is wife is younger and stronger than he is. 359p.