The Coal Diamond.

by Shirley Lauro

THE STORY: The time is 1955, the place a Missouri insurance company office on the hottest day of the year. It is lunchtime, and four women employees gather for their daily session of gossip and bridge. The senior member of the group, a wisecracking supervisor who is deferred to by the others, is scornful of an absent colleague, but affable towards the new employee who has volunteered to make a fourth for their game. As the cards are dealt, and sandwiches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822202239
• ISBN13: 9780822202233
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.3" x 5.3"