The Sleep of Baby Filbertson: And Other Stories - Paperback
$13.99
$17.99
-22%Quantity
01
Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with
Language:EnglishPublisher:RosettaBooksISBN-13:9780795351419ISBN-10:795351410UPC:9780795351419Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Short Stories (single author), Small Town & RuralSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCM0XQVPVK
The Sleep of Baby Filbertson: And Other Stories
This short story collection by the acclaimed author of Midnight Cowboy explores the desperate lives of outsiders with unflinching insight. In his first collection of short fiction, James Leo Herlihy examines the experiences of alienation and isolation while elevating the oddities and quirks that make up human nature. These seven tales tackle the anxieties of fragile people and get to the heart...
Language:EnglishPublisher:RosettaBooksISBN-13:9780795351419ISBN-10:795351410UPC:9780795351419Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Short Stories (single author), Small Town & RuralSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCM0XQVPVK
James Leo Herlihy was born in 1927 in Detroit, Michigan to a working-class family. After serving in World War II, Herlihy studied art, literature, and music at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, whose faculty had boasted such luminaries as William De Kooning and John Cage. After a professor told Herlihy that he had no future as a writer, the disillusioned Herlihy turned his attention to...
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Contributor(s)
Author
Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.