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Henry Bromell

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4 picks · 1973–1978

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Travel Stories
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Susan and Scobie live in Iowa City, Iowa with their three year old son, Sammy. Describes one summer afternoon--Sammy selling lemonade, Susan and Sammy …

The World in a Room
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Incidents from the life of a family related alternately by the father, Sam, who recalls his wife Laura, and the son, Scobie, who thinks of his father. At …

Balcony
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The writer is a 22 yr. old man spending some time on the island of Crete with his lover Susan, whom he has known for three yrs. The story is told through …

Early Sunday Morning
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Susan Evans and Scobie, the boy with whom she has been living, were visiting her parents' home outside Boston. Mr. Evans, who plays a trumpet at a …