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Eleven stories on the vagaries of life. In Why China? a successful stockbroker yearns for the days when he was poor, in Passing the Hat, a wife observing a woman sleep around with men, is shocked to discover her own husband was one of them, while The Watch Trick compares the lives of two army friends, one who settled down, the other who didn't. By the author of The Invisible Circus.
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12 editions · 4 languages- Paperback · English · 2007Anchor · 192 pages · 9780307387530
- Paperback · English · 1997Picador · 192 pages · 9780312151188
- Other · English · 2012Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 300 pages · 9781780334646
- Other · English · 2012Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 176 pages · 9781780331218
- Other · English · 2012Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780792789611
- Other · English · 1997Picador USA · 178 pages · 9780312151171
Manners and customsFictionYoung womenManners and customs -- Fiction.Fiction, short stories (single author)Fiction, general