HUMAN COUNTRY PA

by MATHEWS,HARRY

• ISBN13: 9781564783219
• ISBN10: 1564783219
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-09-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Summary

Collecting the best of Mathews's short fictionfrom the hilarious 'the Broadcast,' in which the,narrator learns from a radio program that,everything he needs in life should fit into one,sock, to 'Calibration of Latitude,' which follows,Sir Joseph Pernican on a meandering and seemingly,aimless journey (through the city and through his,imagination) that in the end proves not aimless at,all, but rather purposeful and deeply moving.

Table of Contents

First Stories
Tradition and the Individual Talent: The "Bratislava Spiccato"	p. 3
The Dialect of the Tribe	p. 7
The Novel as History	p. 15
Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double)	p. 19
The Network	p. 37
Remarks of the Scholar Graduate	p. 41
The Ledge	p. 51
Their Words, for You	p. 53
The American Experience: Stories to be Read Aloud
The Way Home	p. 79
Tear Sheet	p. 95
Letters from Yerevan	p. 99
The Chariot	p. 105
Franz Kafka in Riga	p. 111
Still Life	p. 115
Calibrations of Latitude
Dear Mother	p. 123
Mr. Smathers	p. 127
Brendan	p. 129
The Broadcast	p. 133
Calibrations of Latitude	p. 135
The Taxidermist	p. 153
Soap Opera	p. 155
Journeys to Six Lands	p. 159
Clocking the World on Cue: The Chronogram for 2001	p. 169
One-Way Mirror	p. 179
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