Short Stories: Five Decades (Phoenix Fiction)

Short Stories: Five Decades (Phoenix Fiction)

Irwin Shaw
$22.50
Publication Date: December 1st, 2000
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
9780226751283
Pages:
784
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Description

Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.

About the Author

Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He is the playwright of Bury the Dead, and the author of twelve novels, among them Rich Man, Poor Man, The Troubled Air, Nightwork, Acceptable Losses, Evening in Byzantium and Short Stories: Five Decades, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.

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