Short Stories: Five Decades - Paperback

by Irwin Shaw (Author)

Front Jacket

Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including Girls in Their Summer Dresses, Sailor Off the Bremen, and The Eighty-Yard Run-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.

Back Jacket

Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.

Author Biography

Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He is the playwright of Bury the Dead, and the author of twelve novels, among them Rich Man, Poor Man, The Troubled Air, Nightwork, Acceptable Losses, Evening in Byzantium and The Young Lions, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.