Notes

Selected stories 271 p Some short stories previously published New Zealand author Contents: A day with yesterman -- Supper Waltz Wilson -- Lilies -- Descent from the Flugelhorn -- Mr Van Gogh -- Monologue and absent friends -- Effigies of family Christmas -- Thinking of Bagheera -- The charcoal burner's dream -- The master of big jingles -- Requiem in a town house -- Body and soul -- Harvest apocalypse -- Price Valiant -- The divided world -- The day Hemingway died -- Cabernet sauvignon with my brother -- The seed merchant -- A town of rivers -- The paper parcel -- Essie -- The fat boy -- Voice of the cosmic warlord -- The ace of diamonds gang -- The castle of conceits -- The frozen continents -- The lynx hunter -- Valley day -- The complete male chauvinists' and idlers' pipe dream -- Mumsie and Zip -- A poet's dream of Amazons -- Convalescence in the old city -- A test of fire -- Off by heart