The Coast of Good Intentions: Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0618446516
- ISBN-13
- 9780618446513
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 163
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Michael Byers
Description
A collection of stories set in the Pacific Northwest. The story, In Spain, One Thousand and Three, describes the sexual reawakening of a mourning widower, while in Settled on the Cranberry Coast, a man meets a girl he once pined for, now a grandmother.
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