A collection of stories. Contents: The Little Dirty Girl (1982) Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1983) Main Street: 1953 (1983) How Dorothy Kept Away the Spring (1977) This Afternoon (1968) This Night, At My Fire (1966) I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket... But By God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life! (1964) Come Closer (1965) It's Important to Believe (1980) Mr. Wilde's Second Chance (1966) Window Dressing (1970) Existence (1975) Foul Foul (1971) A Short and Happy Life (1969) The Throwaways (1969) The Clichés From Outer Space (1975) Elf Hill (1982) Nor Custom Stale (1952) The Experimenter (1975) Reasonable People (1974) Life in a Furniture Store (1970) Old Pictures (1973) I. Visiting (1967) II. Visiting Day (1970) Old Thoughts, Old Presences I. The Autobiography of My Mother (1975) II. Daddy's Little Girl (1975)
