Short stories, published 1946-75.

Preface -- Goodbye, my brother -- Common day -- Enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- Hartleys -- Sutton Place story -- Summer farmer -- Torch song -- Pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- Season of divorce -- Chaste Clarissa -- Cure -- Superintendent -- Children -- Sorrows of gin -- O youth and beauty! -- Day the pig fell into the well -- Five-forty-eight -- Just one more time -- Housebreaker of Shady Hill -- Bus to St James's -- Worm in the apple -- Trouble of Marcie Flint -- Bella lingua -- Wrysons -- Country husband -- Duchess -- Scarlet moving van -- Just tell me who it was -- Brimmer -- Golden age -- Lowboy -- Music teacher -- Woman without a country -- Death of Justina -- Clementina -- Boy in Rome -- Miscellany of characters that will not appear -- Chimera -- Seaside houses -- Angel of the bridge -- Brigadier and the golf widow -- Vision of the world -- Reunion -- Educated American woman -- Metamorphoses -- Mene, mene, tekel, Upharsin -- Montraldo -- Ocean -- Marito in Citta -- Geometry of love -- Swimmer -- World of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- Fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well digger -- Three stories -- Jewels of the Cabots.

Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), 1979

National Book Awards winner (Fiction), 1981