| Contents |
A set of variations on a borrowed theme -- The American wife -- The impossible marriage -- The cheat -- The weeping children -- The saint -- A minority -- An out-and-out free gift -- Anchors -- Sue -- Music when soft voices die -- A life of your own -- The Corkerys -- A story by Maupassant -- A great man -- The school for wives -- Androcles and the army -- Public opinion -- The party -- Achilles' heel -- Lost fatherlands -- The wreath -- The teacher's mass -- The martyr -- Requiem -- An act of charity -- The mass island. |
| Abstract |
A collection of stories with themes of "manhood, love, faith, and the infinite web of relationships to family, to church, and to country by which men and women are sustained or entrapped." |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy has inscription "to Daddy,... from Kathy, Bob, & Brian, Xmas 1972," on front fly-leaf. Peter Taylor name label inside front cover. Stuart Wright Peter Taylor Book Collection #70. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy gift of Stuart Wright, 2014 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: O'Connor, Frank, 1903-1966. Set of variations. [1st ed.]. New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1969 |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| LCCN | 69011479 |
| Stock number | 6.95. |
