From the O. Henry Award-winning author of Rich Man, Poor Man, a collection of short stories revealing a wide-ranging portrait of life in postwar America.

New York Times-bestselling author Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker's fiction pages in the 1930s and '40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as "The Eighty-Yard Run," a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and "Main Currents in American Thought," in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw's writing -as demonstrated in these pages-maintains the clear-eyed moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher's soul.

"Shaw remains a genial, seductive storyteller, especially adept with money matters and comfy milieus." - Kirkus Reviews

"[Shaw] always writes immensely readable books." - The New York Times

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) was an acclaimed, award-winning author who grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. His first play, Bury the Dead (1936), has become an anti-war classic. He went on to write several more plays, more than a dozen screenplays, two works of nonfiction, dozens of short stories (for which he won two O. Henry awards), and twelve novels, including The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970). William Goldman, author of Temple of Gold and Marathon Man, says of Shaw: "He is one of the great storytellers and a pleasure to read." For more about Shaw's life and work, visit www.irwinshaw.org.

A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Times-bestselling novelist.
Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker's fiction pages in the 1930s and '40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as "The Eighty-Yard Run," a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and "Main Currents in American Thought," in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw's writing -as demonstrated in these pages-maintains the clear-eyed moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher's soul.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction by Irwin Shaw
• The Eighty-Yard Run
• Borough of Cemeteries
• Main Currents of American Thought
• Second Mortgage
• Sailor off the Bremen
• Strawberry Ice Cream Soda
• Welcome to the City
• The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
• Search Through the Streets of the City
• The Monument
• I Stand by Dempsey
• God on Friday Night
• Return to Kansas City
• Triumph of Justice
• No Jury Would Convict
• The Lament of Madame Rechevsky
• The Deputy Sheriff
• Stop Pushing, Rocky
• "March, March on Down the Field"
• Free Conscience, Void of Offence
• Weep in Years to Come
• The City Was in Total Darkness
• Night, Birth and Opinion
• Preach on the Dusty Roads
• Hamlets of the World
• Medal from Jerusalem
• Walking Wounded
• Night in Algiers
• Gunners' Passage
• Retreat
• Act of Faith
• The Man with One Arm
• The Passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins
• The Dry Rock
• Noises in the City
• The Indian in Depth of Night
• Material Witness
• Little Henry Irving
• The House of Pain
• A Year to Learn the Language
• The Greek General
• The Green Nude
• The Climate of Insomnia
• Goldilocks at Graveside
• Mixed Doubles
• A Wicked Story
• Age of Reason
• Peter Two
• The Sunny Banks of the River Lethe
• The Man Who Married a French Wife
• Voyage Out, Voyage Home
• Tip on a Dead Jockey
• The Inhabitants of Venus
• In the French Style
• Then We Were Three
• God Was Here But He Left Early
• Love on a Dark Street
• Small Saturday
• Pattern of Love
• Whispers in Bedlam
• Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend
• Full Many a Flower
• Circle of Light
• A Biography of Irwin Shaw
• Copyright Page