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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
225 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781400044047, 1400044049
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso
Packer's sterling collection of stories is framed by two novellas: "Walk for Mankind" about teenager Richard Appleby and his bittersweet relationship with Sasha Horowitz, a rebellious, risk-taking 14-year-old, who has a clandestine affair with a drug dealer; and, "Things Said or Done" set three decades later, when Sasha, now 51 and divorced, has become Richard's caretaker