Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories -- Damion Searls, Hardcover Agnes Moorehead abrasive New York divorcée whose

abrasive New York divorcée whose sharp-edged

Genevieve West

It's a pattern I see in my life

When she learns that Will's ship has been captured by the Spanish and he and his crew have been imprisoned in Cuba

Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories -- Damion Searls, Hardcover Agnes Moorehead abrasive New York divorcée whoseA towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer "the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius. The headliner of this volume, "Chaotic