TY - BOOK AU - Just,Ward S. TI - Twenty-one: selected stories SN - 0395537568 : AV - PS3560.U75 T9 1990 U1 - 813/.54 20 PY - 1990/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Short stories, American KW - Class of Spring 1999 KW - Berlin Prize Fellow KW - Fellow KW - short stories KW - aat KW - Short stories KW - fast KW - lcgft KW - Nouvelles KW - rvmgf N1 - "A Richard Todd book."; Honor, power, riches, fame, and the love of women -- I'm worried about you -- Journalism -- The congressman who loved Flaubert -- Burns -- Noone -- Prime evening time -- A guide to the architecture of Washington, D.C. -- D. -- The short war of Mr. and Mrs. Conner -- Journal of a plague year -- Cease-fire -- A man at the top of his trade -- Dietz at war -- About Boston -- Maintenance -- A guide to the geography of Vermont -- The North Shore, 1958 -- The Costa Brava, 1959 -- A woman of character -- She's not dead, Belle N2 - The 21 stories in this book are culled from those published by Ward over the past 19 years. The stories are set in Vietnam, Washington, The Midwest, and Europe, and are mostly about journalists, politicians, and diplomats who lead lives of public consequence and private passion. Just sets himself firmly in the American realist short-story tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and O'Hara. The volume includes two novellas. ISBN 0-395-53756-8 : $22.95 ER -