《IRWIN SHAW SHORT STORIES: FIVE DECADES》

Introduction11

The Eighty-Yard Run13

Borough of Cemeteries26

Main Currents of American Thought33

Second Mortgage42

Sailor off the Bremen46

Strawberry Ice Cream Soda56

Welcome to the City67

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses78

Search Through the Streets of the City86

The Monument94

I Stand by Dempsey100

God on Friday Night106

Return to Kansas City112

Triumph of Justice119

No Jury Would Convict129

The Lament of Madam Rechevsky134

The Deputy Sheriff140

Stop Pushing, Rocky149

“March, March on Down the Field”157

Free Conscience, Void of Offence162

Weep in Years to Come171

The City Was in Total Darkness177

Night, Birth and Opinion191

Preach on the Dusty Roads199

Hamlets of the World207

Medal from Jerusalem220

Walking Wounded238

Night in Algiers255

Gunners’ Passage259

Retreat275

Act of Faith284

The Man with One Arm300

The Passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins321

The Dry Rock333

Noises in the City344

The Indian in Depth of Night355

Material Witness360

Little Henry Irving366

The House of Pain374

A Year to Learn the Language381

The Greek General412

The Green Nude424

The Climate of Insomnia445

Goldilocks at Graveside464

Mixed Doubles486

A Wicked Story495

Age of Reason505

Peter Two515

The Sunny Banks of the River Lethe523

The Man Who Married a French Wife536

Voyage Out, Voyage Home556

Tip on a Dead Jockey580

The Inhabitants of Venus611

In the French Style633

Then We Were Three646

God Was Here But He left Early674

Love on a Dark Street694

Small Saturday714

Pattern of Love763

Whispers in Bedlam772

Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend817

Full Many a Flower833

Circle of Light848