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Bad Characters

✍ Scribed by Stafford, Jean

Book ID
109530266
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tongue
en-US
Weight
273 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781466896581

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✦ Synopsis

This book displays at their height the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration that distinguish Miss Stafford's work. There are nine stories and a novella. They range in mood from the title story, a comic portrait of a resourceful child-criminal named Lottie Jump, to "The End of a Career," an elegiac and ironic tale of the declining years of a great beauty. In "A Reasonable Facsimile" Dr. Bohrmann, a retired professor philosophy, is unexpectedly rescued from an aggressively boring young house guest. "Cops and Robbers" is a chilling story of childhood horror and lovelessness that revolves around a father's trip to the barber with his five-year-old daughter.

Several of the stories have as their common setting Miss Stafford's fiction town of Adams, Colorado--including an amusing saga of a girl's frustrated attempts to find a quiet spot to read ("A Reading Problem"), and two stories of failure ("In the Zoo") and success ("The Liberation") in the effort to escape...

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