This volume presents nine short stories - 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish'; 'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut'; 'Just Beore the War with the Eskimos'; 'The Laughing Man'; 'Down at the Dinghy'; 'For Esmé - with Love and Squalor'; 'Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes'; 'De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period'; 'Teddy'.