At Home with the Glynns

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Contents
 
About the Book       Summary and Reviews



Dedication, Epigraphs, and Theme



The Alleyway Not Taken



Troubled Titan Peas (Quality . . . in a Jiff!)



Rolling Peas



Practice!



Goop



The Acquisition of a Potentially Useful Skill



Margot and Martha Ask a Favor



Legends of the Glynns



I Discover What I Want to Be When I Grow Up



The Stories Told About the Night the Nevsky Mansion Burned



The Night the Nevsky Mansion Burned



Salvage



A Nevsky “Fictofacto”



Asides on the Compulsion to Tell a Story and Shells as a Concept



Meeting Mr. Glynn



Rosetta Glynn and the Aroma of Hope



The Escape of the Bat



I Become Aware of a Certain Yearning



What Is Life?



The Shock of the New, Cushioned by the Familiar, Wrapped in Hope



A Chubby Toy Put on This Earth for Someone’s Amusement



Trust
Chapter 22



An Aside on the Babbington Dialect
Chapter 23



“Oh, Peter—Grow Up”
Chapter 24



L’Amour, La Guerre, La Poussière
Chapter 25



Margot and Martha at Play
Chapter 26



In the Dark with You and You
Chapter 27



The Lizard Kiss
Chapter 28



The Route of the Cat Burglar
Chapter 29



Into the Enchanted Glynnscape
Chapter 30



Rustlers in the Dust
Chapter 31



A Passage Not Deleted
Chapter 32



Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis paniculata)
Chapter 33



The Crutch of Realism
Chapter 34



An Aside on the Subject of the Practical Value of Literature
Chapter 35



The Watermelon of Watermelons
Chapter 36



Every Student Needs Some Evidence of Progress
Chapter 37



I Become a Sketch Doctor
Chapter 38



The Apparition of the Dark-Haired Girl
Chapter 39



The Dark-Haired Girl Draws Closer
Chapter 40



Incomplete Need Not Be Incorrect, Especially When It Comes to Products of the Imagination
Chapter 41



My Mind’s Eye’s Apple
Chapter 42



The Laggard Stepchildren of the Facts
Chapter 43



Don’t Look Back

 



Copyright © 1995 by Eric Kraft

At Home with the Glynns is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, dialogues, settings, and businesses portrayed in it are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

First published by Crown Publishers, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. Member of the Crown Publishing Group.

Now available in paperback from Picador USA, a division of St. Martin's Press.

For information about publication rights outside the U. S. A., audio rights, serial rights, screen rights, and so on, e-mail Alec “Nick” Rafter, the author’s earnest agent.

The illustration at the top of the page is an adaptation of an illustration by Stewart Rouse that first appeared on the cover of the August 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions. The boy at the controls of the aerocycle doesn’t particularly resemble Peter Leroy—except, perhaps, for the smile.


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