The divided world : selected stories / Owen Marshall.

Some short stories previously published.

A day with yesterman -- Supper waltz wilson -- Lilies -- Decent from the flugelhorn -- Mr Van Gogh -- Monologue and absent friends -- Effigies of family Christmas -- Thinking of Bagheera -- The charcoal burners' dream -- The master of big jingles -- Requiem in a town house -- Body and soul -- Harvest apocalypse -- Prince Valiant -- The divided world -- The day Hemingway died -- Cabernet sauvignon with my brother -- The seed merchant -- A town of rivers -- The paper parcel -- Essie -- The fat boy -- Voice of the cosmic warlord -- The ace of diamonds gang -- The castle of conceits -- The frozen continents -- The lynx hunter -- Valley day -- The complete male chauvinists and idlers pipe dream -- Mumsie and zip -- A poet's dream of Amazons -- Convalescence in the old city -- A test of fire -- Off by heart.