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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811919103321

Autore

Meinke Peter

Titolo

The piano tuner : stories / / by Peter Meinke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 1986

ISBN

0-8203-5247-0

1-280-49154-X

9786613586773

0-8203-4358-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Short stories, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- I: Home Thoughts -- The Piano Tuner -- Alice's Brother -- Ruby Lemons -- The Ponoes -- Conversation with a Pole -- Losers Pay -- Even Crazy Old Barmaids Need Love -- II: From Abroad -- A Decent Life -- The Twisted River -- Sealink -- The Starlings of Leicester Square -- Winter Term -- The Water-Tree -- The Bracelet.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets.