The Burning & Other Stories
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A collection of 14 stories that weave a rich variety of experiences and characters : truck drivers with troubled consciences over the death of a fellow truck driver on the road, an artist in San Francisco getting to know what his wife is really like through her response to a girl in an orange hat, a father taking his son north to Canada to escape the draft, a man and a woman meeting casually in a city and managing to transcend their loneliness for an evening, playing like they were somebodies to...
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