Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea

by Lena Lencek (Editor), Gideon Bosker (Editor)

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J. D. Salinger's ""A Perfect Day for Bananafish,"" John Cheever's ""Goodbye, My Brother,"" Doris Lessing's ""Through the Tunnel"": These and dozens of other beloved stories share the beach as their setting. In fact, it is remarkable how many of the finest writers have set stories and novels in whole or in part at the beach -- and how often they use this locale to explore the great themes of love, loss, death, family, and redemption. Beach brings together, for the first time, the very best of show more this literary tradition, including stories, novel excerpts, and narrative nonfiction. show less

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Ballard, JG (Contributor)
Balliett, Whitney (Contributor)
Boyle, Kay (Contributor)
Boyle, T.C. (Contributor)
Camus, Albert (Contributor)
Carson, Rachel (Contributor)
Cheever, John (Contributor)
Chekhov, Anton (Contributor)
Colter, Cyrus (Contributor)
Johnson, Diane (Contributor)
Kaiko, Takeshi (Contributor)
Kincaid, Jamaica (Contributor)
Lessing, Doris (Contributor)
Malouf, David (Contributor)
Mordden, Ethan (Contributor)
Nabokov, Vladimir (Contributor)
Rymer, Russ (Contributor)
Steinbeck, John (Contributor)
Swift, Graham (Contributor)
Tournier, Michel (Contributor)
Updike, John (Contributor)
Wesolowska, Monica (Contributor)

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Fiction and Literature, Romance
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808.83Literature & rhetoricLiterature, rhetoric & criticismCompositionLiterature CollectionsCollections of fiction
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PN6071 .S4 .B43Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literature
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