Like you'd understand, anyway : stories
"Like You'd Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, caught in the star-crossed orbits of their joint mission. Two Texas high school football players at the top of their food chain, soliciting their fathers' attention by leveling everything before them on the field. And the rational and compassionate chief executioner of Paris, whose occupation, during the height of the Terror, eats away at all he holds dear"--Publisher website (November 2007)
Fiction
1 online resource (x, 211 pages)
9780307487520, 0307487520
759516972
The Zero Meter Diving Team
Proto-scorpions of the Silurian
Hadrian's wall
Trample the dead, hurdle the weak
Ancestral legacies
Pleasure boating in Lituya Bay
The first South Central Australian Expedition
My Aeschylus
Eros 7
Courtesy for beginners
Sans farine
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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