Johnny Too Bad: StoriesIn a collection of short works by the author of Louisiana Power & Light, a romantic-minded woman must choose between a marriage of convenience and an affair, four brothers pretend to search for a nonexistent foster home, and an unfaithful man is found dead after announcing he is leaving his wife and children. 20,000 first printing. |
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JOHNNY TOO BAD: Stories
User Review - KirkusNovelist Dufresne (Deep in the Shade of Paradise, 2002, etc.) meanders through 18 stories, set mostly in Florida's Broward County, offering a spot of charm but little by way of real satisfaction.The ... Read full review
Johnny too bad: stories
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis latest from Dufresne (Louisiana Power & Light ) is a novella intertwined with several short stories conceivably written by the narrator himself. Johnny's life is complicated by his dog, Spot, who ... Read full review
Contents
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 |
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| Title | Johnny Too Bad: Stories |
| Author | John Dufresne |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0393057895, 9780393057898 |
| Length | 247 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Short Stories (single author) |
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