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  Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Paperback) By (author) David Sedaris

  

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  Short Description for Children Playing Before a Statue of HerculesA collection of stories - some classic, some impending - selected and introduced by David Sedaris. Within these covers, a careful reader can discover the truth about loneliness, hope, love, betrayal and certain, but not all, monkeys.
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  • Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Published: 01 August 2005
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780743276122 ISBN 10: 0743276124
  • Sales rank: 135,058

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• 'When apple-picking season ended, I got a Job in a packing plant and gravitated towards short stories, which I could read during my break and reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit ...Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories can save you'.