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Nine Stories

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948)

"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948)

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"Just Before the War with the Eskimos" (1948)

"The Laughing Man" (1949)

"Down at the Dinghy" (1949)

"For Esme - with Love and Squalor" (1950)

"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" (1951)

"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" (1952)

"Teddy" (1953)

Genre
literary fictionwar and military
Setting
1950s20th centuryUSAnew yorkhigh school
Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
short · 198 pages
Form
short stories

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