Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories

Boris Vian

Original title: Blues for a black cat & other stories

earliest edition we have, 1992 University of Nebraska Press, 1992 116 pages

French modernist library

A cocky black cat that drinks cognac and can't stay out of holes, a hyperactive plumber who pulls out all the stops, an expiring jazzman who sells his sweat, a green soldier who moves into a terribly serious position - these are a few of the outrageous and poignant creations of Boris Vian in Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories. Julia Older makes available for the first time in English this collection of his short...

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Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories edition · 2021 · University of Nebraska Press · 9781496215130
Blues for a black cat & other stories edition · 1992 · University of Nebraska Press · 116 pages

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