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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: murder of the frogs and other stories
  title info:
    title: Short strories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Carpenter, Don
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: pages cm
  abstract: "The High Sierras, the Oregon back country, Hollywood, San Francisco and its environs provide settings for the two novellas and eight shorter pieces brought together in this uncommonly substantial and satisfying volume by the author of Hard Rain Falling and Blade of Light. Among the six stories with which the collection begins is a brief, start, cooly shocking tale called "Limbo." The other five are longer, but not without shocks of their own. "Road Show," about a trio of small-time entertainers-two white, one black-explodes into violence at the end. "The Crossroader," which concerns a black pool-hall hustler who wins a signal victory in an all-white town, and "Blue Eyes," in which the confrontation is between whites and a half-Indian girl, recall the arresting early chapters of Hard Rain Falling. In "New York to Los Angeles," two innocents from New York begin to discover Hollywood; "Silver Lamé" concerns a very young man on the make in Mill Valley and a much older woman who knows exactly what she wants. Hollywood is again the setting for "The Art of the Film," which comprises two mordant companion pieces, starring in turn a shrewd old tycoon whose memories go back to the film industry's beginnings and a young newspaperman who becomes one of his latter-day hirelings. The novellas are at opposite poles from each other. Set in a summer colony by a mountain lake, "The Murder of the Frogs," about a boy's first ecstatic and agonizing discovery of love, is almost an idyll-except for the episode from which it takes its title. "One of Those Big-City Girls," a San Francisco story, is a compassionate study of a woman, a depiction of human loneliness as haunting and memorable as Blade of Light. Don Carpenter emerges, in this book, not just as a superb storyteller who challenges comparison with the masters of the form, but also as a writer of impressive range and variety"--
  note: Don Carpenter.
  classification: PS3553.A76 A6 2020
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9780486843438
  identifier: 0486843432
  identifier: 2019049271
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191028
    record change date: 20250318222315.3
    record identifier: in00004123509
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng