Full name: The Art of Living and Other Stories

Author: John Gardner Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780394516745 0394516745

"The first collection in seven years from one of America's most celebrated and admired writers--ten wonderful short (and long) stories that allow us to explore and enjoy once again the many facets of John Gardner's unique fictional world. Here are enchanting tales about queens and kings and princesses in magical, timeless lands; marvelously warm and funny stories that move, amuse, and enlighten us as they probe the mysterious and profound relation between art and life." This is a hardcover edition of The Art of Living and Other Stories, written by John Gardner and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1981. It is a self-stated First Printing, with stunning woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Similar books: Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates Hot Pink by Adam Levin Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber How It Ended by Jay McInerney Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon The Safety of Objects by A. M. Homes Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston Demonology by Rick Moody Women in their beds by Gina Berriault High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates Lust and Other Stories by Susan Minot Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist Break It Down by Lydia Davis The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau