A collection of short stories. Characters featured include a young boy craving for attention from his busy Hollywood executive father, an upwardly mobile advertising man not yet ready for suburbia, and a silent screen has-been on the luckiest night of her life.

"Love, Action, Laughter" and Other Sad Tales

Schulberg, Budd.

Alison and Busby

Depicts a futuristic America where a lame-duck president leaves office and the White House devises a plan to get rid of surplus citizens.

Terrible Threes

Reed, Ishmaël

Fallen

Literature & Fiction

LEBBON, Tim

Literary

"The sight of duty does make one shiver," said Miss Herrick. "The actual doing of it would kill one, I think." Ever anxious to keep up appearances, self-avowed intellectual and scholar Nicholas Herrick knows that to involve himself in the running of his own school would be a condescension too far. Assembling around himself a cast of fittingly fawning friends and aides, he sets about unveiling his final masterpiece. Described in contemporary reviews as "a work of genius," Pastors and Masters inaugurated the writing career of an author gifted with a rare skill for characterization and for wry portrayals of domestic scenes.

Pastors and Masters

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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