false 1320961 88295 87984 0143035762 9780143035763 44 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171121416m/87984.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171121416s/87984.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87984.The_Pacific_and_Other_Stories 3.98 276 The Pacific and Other Stories, a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft prose that have come to be his signature. A British paratrooper jumps into occupied territory; the 1958 New York Yankees gain an unexpected teammate in a puny, teenaged Hasidic Jew; a September 11th widow receives an astonishing gift from the contractor working on her new apartment—these and other stories exhibit the constantly changing variety of the ocean itself, the peaks and troughs of life. Lighthearted, glittering fables are met with starker tales that sound the depths of sacrifice and duty. The Pacific and Other Stories is a resplendent, powerful collection of lasting substance and emotional import.]]> 8146 4.09 6472 1166 2004 0 2009-03-30T13:09:13-07:00 568951 125 2009-03-30T13:09:13-07:00 1 1 false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 20 05:34:27 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 30 13:27:08 -0700 2009
I've read six of the sixteen stories here, and can go no further: Good God, but the man overwrites. His work has always suffered from a sentimental, self-consciously "literary" quality—he does love to wax on about the light, and about notions of hono...more...]]>