by Sue Miller
“Appropriate Affect” first appeared in The American Voice.
“Calling” first appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine.
“What Ernest Says,” “The Birds and the Bees,” and “Expensive Gifts” first appeared in Ploughshares.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1987 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
INVENTING THE ABBOTTS AND OTHER STORIES. Copyright © 1987 by Sue Miller. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First HarperPerennial edition published 1999.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Miller, Sue.
Inventing the Abbotts and other stories. / Sue Miller.
p. cm.
Contents: Inventing the Abbotts—Tyler and
Brina—Appropriate affect—[etc.]
ISBN 0-06-015755-0
EPub Edition Janauary 2016 ISBN 9780062463494
I. Title.
PS3563. I42144415 1987
813’.54 86-46089
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ISBN 0-06-092997-9 (pbk.)
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