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Descending fire & other stories
- Title
- Descending fire & other stories / John Allman.
- Author
- Allman, John, 1935-
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, ©1994.
- ©1994
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 95-4946 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Berg Coll 22-518 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- 168 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Eight stories on New Yorkers. In A Chronic Case, a father kills a man who had an affair with his daughter, Sisters is on two spinsters, and in Losers and Gainers, a woman describes her good-for-nothing boyfriend. By the author of Carve Away from Stillness.
- Alternative Title
- Descending fire and other stories
- Subject
- Short stories
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Dust jackets (Binding) – New York – United States – 20th century.
- Note
- "A New Directions book" -- title page.
- "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
- Binding (note)
- bound in publishers' red cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Sylvia Frezzolini.
- Contents
- The tower -- A chronic case -- Courtship -- The tip -- Sisters -- Losers and gainers -- The substitute -- Descending fire.
- Call Number
- JFD 95-4946
- ISBN
- 0811212742
- 9780811212748
- LCCN
- 94006746
- OCLC
- 29909410
- Author
- Allman, John, 1935- author.
- Title
- Descending fire & other stories / John Allman.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions, ©1994.
- Copyright Date
- ©1994
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Indexed In:
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 138
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-518 bound in publishers' red cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Sylvia Frezzolini. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-518 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
- Added Author
- Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Frezzolini, Sylvia, bookjacket designer.New Directions Publishing, publisher.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 22-518JFD 95-4946