Research Catalog

Title

Love trouble : new and collected work / Veronica Geng.

Author

Geng, Veronica.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

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Details

Description

xv, 312 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Humorous stories, American
• Satire, American
• United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction

Note

• "A Mariner book."

Contents

• Introduction / Ian Frazier -- Report from Your Congressman -- Lulu in Washington -- My Mao -- Ten Movies That Take Women Seriously -- The Sixth Man -- Partners -- Buon Giorno, Big Shot -- A Man Called Jose -- Petticoat Power -- What Makes Them Tick -- More Mathematical Diversions -- James at an Awkward Age -- Teaching Poetry Writing to Singles -- The Stylish New York Couples -- Masterpiece Tearjerker -- Serenade -- Curb Carter Policy Discord Effort Threat -- Kemp, Dent in Reagan Plans -- The Reagan History of the United States -- Pac Hits Fan -- The Sacred Front -- The Revised Dictionary of Slang and Uncontrollable English -- Coming Apart at the Semes -- Record Review -- Indecent Indemnity -- Now at West Egg -- Supreme Court Roundup -- Lobster Night -- Pepys's Secret Diaries! -- The New Thing -- Tribute -- Love Trouble Is My Business -- Totaled -- Secret Ballot -- Our Side of the Story -- Macdonald -- For Immediate Release -- Canine Chateau --
• The Buck Starts Here -- Settling an Old Score -- The Twi-Night Zone -- Codicil -- The 1985 Beaujolais Nouveaux: Ka-Boum! -- Equal Time -- Remorse -- Mario Cabot's School Days -- What Happened -- Hands Up -- More Unwelcome News -- Poll -- My and Ed's Peace Proposals -- Pat Robertson's Catalogue Essay for a New Exhibition of Paintings by David Salle -- A Lot in Common -- Not an Endorsement -- Man and His Watch -- Summer Session -- My Ideal -- Nowhere to Run -- Post-Euphoria -- Salt of Life -- Faculty Lounge Surveillance Tapes -- The Cheese Stands Alone -- Prime Suspects, U.S.A. -- Testing, Testing ... -- Makes the Going Great -- A Good Man Is Hard to Keep: The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and S. J. Perelman / Veronica Geng and Garrison Keillor -- My Dream Team -- La Cosa Noshtra.

ISBN

0395945577

LCCN

98047177

OCLC

• 40074135
• ocm40074135

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries