In that story in this collection, the distressed Arthur recalls the title line from a poem that used to remind him of his wife while rambling over the phone to the gray-haired friend with whom she is cheating.
In a story in this collection, a woman brushes an ash from the back of a man's hand while telling him multiple times how "wonderful" and "marvelous" he was and repeating, "God, I feel like an absolute dog!" At the end of that story in this collection, a man accidentally drops a burning cigarette in his lap but angrily stops the woman in bed with him from snatching it up. In that story in this collection, the distressed Arthur recalls the title line from a poem that used to remind him of his wife while rambling over the phone to the gray-haired friend with whom she is cheating. The narrator addresses the title character and spells out the word "faculties" in the last line of another story in this collection. A man causes his companion to vomit by recalling how he shot a cat on the hood of a jeep in that story in this collection, in which a traumatized soldier relates how, a7ter completing his training in England prior to D-Day, he met the title precocious girl. For 10 points, name this collection including "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" and "For EsméÂ—with Love and Squalor," a work of J. D. Salinger.
In a story in this collection, a woman brushes an ash from the back of a man's hand while telling him multiple times how "wonderful" and "marvelous" he was and repeating, "God, I feel like an absolute dog!"
Nine Stories