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This collection first published in Penguin Classics 2016
Published in paperback 2017

Many of these stories were first published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s and other magazines. ‘Louisa, Please Come Home’, ‘The Beautiful Stranger’, ‘The Bus’, ‘A Visit’ and ‘The Summer People’ are from the collection Come Along With Me (1968). ‘The Possibility of Evil’, ‘The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith’, ‘The Story We Used to Tell’, ‘Jack the Ripper’, ‘All She Said Was Yes’, ‘What a Thought’, ‘The Good Wife’ and ‘Home’ are from Just an Ordinary Day (1996). ‘Paranoia’, ‘The Man in the Woods’, ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ and ‘Family Treasures’ are from Let Me Tell You (2015).

Copyright © Laurence Jackson Hyman, J. S. Holly, Sarah Hyman DeWitt, and Barry Hyman, 2016

Cover photograph © Wojciech Zwolinski/Arcangel Images

ISBN: 978-0-241-29543-4