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The rose garden : short stories / Maeve Brennan.

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An anthology by a late staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. Two stories, The View from the Kitchen and The Stone Hot-Water Bottle, deal with Leona Harkey, a parvenu trying to ingratiate herself in society, while another story is on the thoughts of a Labrador retriever in an old-moneyed milieu.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Brennan, Maeve
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, c2000.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Ireland > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Country life > Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • The view from the kitchen
  • The anachronism
  • The gentleman in the pink-and-white striped shirt
  • The joker
  • The stone hot-water bottle
  • The divine fireplace
  • The servants' dance
  • The bride
  • The holy terror
  • The Bohemians
  • The rose garden
  • The beginning of a long story
  • The daughters
  • A snowy night on West Forty-ninth Street
  • I see you, Bianca
  • The door on West Tenth Street
  • A large bee
  • The children are very quiet when they are away
  • In and out of Never-Never Land
  • The children are there, trying not to laugh.

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