| Tales Before Midnight Contributor(s): Mason, Ted (Author) |
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ISBN: 0910155615 ISBN-13: 9780910155618 Publisher: Bartleby Press OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 4.82" W x 9.12" (0.98 lbs) 262 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This remarkable volume of stories from the author of Hostage to Fortune has been produced over a lifetime of writing. Tales Before Midnight explores a wide range of human emotion and events, from a city terrorized by a wild beast to the amusing spectacle of a gang of tree climbers just trying to stay out of trouble. There's the wealthy merchant and his teen-age bride, the Malagasy totocaf in Beethoven's Vienna and the mysterious stowaway who witnesses the guilty deeds of his fellow voyagers - or does he? A young and imaginative writer gets an early lesson in prejudice and censorship. A columnist tries to blackmail a crusading senator, a doctor once convicted of euthanasia is asked years later to commit the same act again, and a forgotten French town is liberated by a deserter and experiences close calls in a satirical retrospective of Cold War Europe. Tales Before Midnight rewrites the old adage that "truth is stranger than fiction". Certainly in these stories, fiction is often truer than truth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mason, Ted: - Ted Mason is a retired Foreign Service officer. |
