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There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) (edition 2016)

by Charles Baxter (Author)

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"The ten inter-related stories in [this collection] are held together by a surreally intricate web of cause and effect--one that slowly ensnares both fictional bystanders and ... readers"--Dust jacket flap.
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Title:There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
Authors:Charles Baxter (Author)
Info:Vintage (2016), Edition: Reprint, 240 pages
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Some excellent stories. Would like to go higher than 4 stars. A couple I had already read in Best of Collections. Loved Loyalty. ( )
  Mcdede | Jul 19, 2023 |
Great stories and characters. ( )
  ibkennedy | Jan 13, 2022 |
Over and over a story would start off sounding interesting then head off into left field. This collection of short stories was not my cup of tea! ( )
  hemlokgang | Sep 1, 2021 |
É estranho - este é o tipo de livro de contos que deveria ter tudo para me prender. E no entanto, nem sei bem porquê, não prendeu. Às vezes temos de pegar num livro na altura certa (por quase impossível que seja definir o que isso é), provavelmente esta ainda não era a altura deste. ( )
  espadana | Apr 29, 2019 |
I couldn't really get into these stories, they overlapped, the times confused me as they changed from present to past, and the characters weren't people I would like. ( )
  rmarcin | Jan 22, 2019 |
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It is common knowledge that nobody is born with a decalogue already formed, but that everyone builds his own either during his life or at the end, on the basis of his own experiences, or of those of others which can be assimilated to his own; so that everybody's moral universe, suitably interpreted, comes to be identified with the sum of his former experiences, and so represents an abridged form of his biography. -Primo Levi, The Reawakening
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For Daniel and Hannah Baxter and for Arturo Steely
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When she was a teenage, her junior year, her favorite trick involved riding in cars with at least two other girls. You needed a female cluster in there, and you needed to have the plainest one driving. They'd cruise University Avenue in Palo Alto until they spotted some boys together near a street corner. Boys were always ganged up at high-visibility intersections, marking territory and giving off cigarette smoke and musk. At the red light, she'd roll down the window and shout, "Hey, you guys" The boys would turn toward the car slowly - very slowly - trying for cool. Smoke emerged from their faces, from the nose or mouth. "Hey! Do you think we're pretty?" she'd shout. "Do you think we're cute?" -Bravery
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