Stories and true stories.
- [1st ed.]
- Boston, Little, Brown [1972]
- 276 p. 24 cm.
The credo.--A real saint.--The system.--In the lobby.--The doomed terrapin.--One round trip only.--Ciao Fabrizio.--The griffe of the master.--Bella Napoli.--A ride with Ralph.--The fair singer.--Soirée à la chandelle.--Another storyteller's story.--Jacques Villon: an appreciation.--Postscript: Marcel Duchamp fifty years after the nude.--An approach to James Jackson Jarves.--A letter from Stockholm: the return of Christina.--A letter from Florence: after the flood.--Translating Madame Bovary.--A meeting with Cocteau.--A visit to Barbette.--In search of true Cocteau.--A burial in Venice.