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Stories of happy people

Title: Stories of happy people / Lars Gustafsson ; translated from the Swedish by Yvonne L. Sandstroem and John Weinstock.
Author: Gustafsson, Lars, 1936-2016.
Publication: New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1986.

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Description

134 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

'Stories of Happy People' is a collection of ten short fictions that maps the range of contentment, from inner joy to the edges of despair.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP616

Uniform Title

Berättelser om lyckliga människor. English

Alternative Title

Berättelser om lyckliga människor.

Subject

Genre/Form

Short stories, Swedish.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Translations.
Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1986.

Note

Translation of: Berättelser om lyckliga människor.
"New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Language (note)

Translation of: Berättelser om lyckliga människor.

Binding (note)

bound in publishers' blue cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Harold Wortsman.
bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Harold Wortsman.

Contents

Uncle Sven and the cultural revolution -- The four railroads of Iserlohn -- The art of surviving November -- The girl in the blue cap -- What does not kill us, tends to make us stronger -- The fugitives discover that they know nothing -- Greatness strikes where it pleases -- A water story -- The bird in the breast -- Out of the pain.

Call Number

JFD 86-6437

ISBN

0811209776
9780811209779
0811209784
9780811209786

LCCN

85031052

OCLC

13007060

Author

Gustafsson, Lars, 1936-2016.

Title

Stories of happy people / Lars Gustafsson ; translated from the Swedish by Yvonne L. Sandstroem and John Weinstock.

Imprint

New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1986.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Swedes

Men

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP616

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 117

Language

Translation of: Berättelser om lyckliga människor.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-962 bound in publishers' blue cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Harold Wortsman. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-963 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Harold Wortsman. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-962, 22-963 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Wortzman, Harold, cover designer, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Murray Printing Company, printer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-962

Berg Coll 22-963

JFD 86-6437

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