The Astronomer and Other Stories

by Doris Betts

All but one of these seven stories and one novella take place in small towns in North Carolina, and all of them concern ordinary people teetering upon the knowledge of their own insignificance. First... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807120103
• ISBN13: 9780807120101
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

These stories embody what writing is meant to be.

Doris Betts has written a group of stories peopled with all of us. Faced with their own "ordinariness," and their recognition of what they could be if only they knew how to get there from here, Doris Betts' characters charm us and break our hearts. Ms. Betts has done it again; she does it every time. Brava!