Johnny Too Bad: Stories

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 - Fiction - 247 pages
In a collection of short works, a romantic-minded woman must choose between a marriage of convenience and an affair, and an unfaithful man is found dead after announcing he is leaving his wife and children.

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Lemonade and Paris Buns
3
I Will Eat a Piece of the Roof and You Can Eat the Window
7
Youre at Macys Killing Time When It Hits You
32
Based on a True Story
35
Epithalamion
46
Electric Limits of Our Widest Senses
54
Arlis Ivy
64
The Dead of Night
66
Johnny Too Bad
98
Around the World
150
Who Are They Who Are Like Clouds?
152
Breaking It Down for You
164
Close By Me Forever
166
Died and Gone to Heaven
177
Lefty
204
Squeeze the Feeling
207

Talk Talk Talk
81
Congratulations You May Already Be
95

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