A collection of twenty-one short stories set during the leisurely time of summer.
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ISBN: 0143056298 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780143056294 (pbk.)
Physical Description:xv, 394 p.print
Publisher:Toronto : Penguin Group, 2007.
General Note: LSC 24.00"Penguin Canada."
Formatted Contents Note: Death by landscape / Margaret Atwood -- Dandelion wine / Ray Bradbury -- Under the jaguar sun / Italo Calvino -- The adulterous woman / Albert Camus -- Le chevalier / Mohamed Choukri -- Summer / Julio Cortazar -- Games at twilight / Anita Desai -- Postcards from surfers / Helen Garner -- On fire / Isabel Huggan -- The wasps / Shimaki Kensaku -- A pornographer woos / Bernard MacLaverty -- The pool / Daphne du Maurier -- Miss Forbes's summer of happiness / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Hired girl / Alice Munro -- The new family Robinson / Ludmila Petrushevskaya -- The view from the balcony / Wallace Stegner -- Learning to swim / Graham Swift -- Flesh / Elizabeth Taylor -- Lifeguard / John Updike -- Three players of a summer game / Tennessee Williams -- Early in the summer of 1970 / A.B. Yehoshua.