"A Douglas Gibson Book".

Foreword -- The Love of a good woman -- Jakarta -- The children stay -- My mother's dream -- Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage -- Family furnishings -- Post and beam -- The bear came over the mountain -- The view from Castle Rock -- Working for a living -- Hired girl -- Home -- Runaway -- Soon -- Passion -- Dimensions -- Wood -- Child's play -- Too much happiness -- To reach Japan -- Amundsen -- The train -- The eye -- Dear life -- Bibliographic note.

From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature -- a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994).

SS/CDN ll