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The Penguin book of summer stories  Cover Image Book Book

The Penguin book of summer stories / selected and introduced by Alberto Manguel.

Manguel, Alberto. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143056294 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0143056298 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xv, 394 p. ; 23 cm. : ill.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Penguin Books Canada, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood -- Dandelion wine / Ray Bradbury -- Under the jaguar sun / Italio Calvino -- Adulterous woman / Albert Camus -- Chevalier / Mohamed Choukri -- Summer / Julio Cortázar -- Games at twilight / Anita Desai -- Postcards from surfers / Helen Garner -- On fire / Isabel Huggan -- Wasps / Shimaki Kensaku -- Pornographer woos / Bernard MacLaverty -- Pool / Daphne Du Maurier -- Miss Forbes's summer of happiness / Gabriel García Márquez -- Hired girl / Alice Munro -- New family Robinson / Ludmila Petrushevskaya -- View from the balcony / Wallace Stegner -- Learning to swim / Graham Swift -- Flesh / Elizabeth Taylor -- Lifeguard / John Updike -- Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams -- Early in the summer of 1970 / A.B. Yehoshua.
Genre: Short stories.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Castlegar Public Library FIC PEN (Text) 35146001101302 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Nakusp Public Library FIC PEN (Text) 35160000387200 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Williams Lake Branch PEN (Text)
Legacy Use Count: 10
33923003961137 General Fiction Volume hold Available -


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