Screen LibraryThe cat's pajamas：stories
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Morrow,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 234 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
006058565X (acid-free paper) 9780060585655 (acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/B798 |
| Contents: |
Chrysalis -- The island -- Sometime before dawn -- Hail to the chief -- We'll just act natural -- Olé, Orozco! Siqueiros, sí! -- The house -- The John Wilkes Booth/Warner Brothers/MGM/NBC funeral train -- A careful man dies -- The cat's pajamas -- The Mafioso cement-mixing machine -- The ghosts -- Where's my hat, what's my hurry? -- The transformation -- Sixty-six -- A matter of taste -- I get the blues when it rains (A remembrance) -- All my enemies are dead -- The completist -- The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. forever orient express. A collection of new short stories by the award-winning science-fiction writer of One More for the Road includes tales of twentieth-century rural life, Halloween terrors, and flights of fancy on Martian shores. Ray Bradbury is, indisputably, one of America's greatest storytellers. The recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, he ranks among the most beloved, and widely read, of American authors. In The Cat's Pajamas, this "latter-day O. Henry" (Booklist) takes us on an amazing walk through his six-decade career, presenting twenty- |