Babies
Published on 1. January 2015
28 pages
978-1-101-97023-2 (ISBN)
Description
A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyone--well, nearly everyone--is pregnant. Can she be happy for them? "Babies," included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series in 1992, is a sharply funny and perfectly observed story of pregnancy, city living, the semantic contradiction of "creative directors," and finding one's place in the world. A selection from Ann Packer's luminous first collection Mendocino and Other Stories. An eBook short.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
6,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-101-97023-2 (9781101970232)
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Ann Packer is the author of two best-selling novels, Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, the latter of which received a Great Lakes Book Award, an American Library Association Award, and the Kate Chopin Literary Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Real Simple. She is the author of the story collections Mendocino and Other Stories and Swim Back to Me, and, most recently, the novel The Children's Crusade. She lives in northern California with her family.
