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Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories

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Language
  
English

ISBN
  
0-06-050783-7

Author
  
Chris Crutcher

OCLC
  
51946831

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Country
  
United States

Pages
  
208 pp

Originally published
  
January 1991

Genre
  
Young adult fiction

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Similar
  
Chris Crutcher books, Young adult fiction books

Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories is a young adult fiction short story collection by Chris Crutcher. Most of the stories are related to Crutcher's early work. This book also contains the short story A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune which first appeared in Connections, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1989 by Delacorte Press. It was adapted into the film Angus.

Contents

Short stories

A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune

The Pin

The Other Pin

Goin' Fishin'

Telephone Man

In the Time I Get

Awards

  • 1992 - American librairan Association (ALA) Best Books for Young Adults
  • 1992 - Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Best Young Adult Book Award
  • 1992 - School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

    • References

    Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories Wikipedia
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