Women in their beds : new and selected stories / Gina Berriault.

Author: Berriault, Gina.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : [Emeryville, Calif.] : Counterpoint ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c1996.

ISBN: 1887178104 (alk. paper)

Description: 342 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Manners and customs Fiction.

Contents: Women in their beds -- Who is it can tell me who I am? -- A dream of fair women -- Soul and money -- The island of Ven -- Lives of the saints -- Stolen pleasures -- The overcoat -- Zenobia -- The woman in the rose-colored dress -- The infinite passion of expectation -- Nights in the gardens of Spain -- Bastille Day -- God and the article writer -- Wilderness fire -- The bystander -- Death of a lesser man -- The search for J. Kruper -- The birthday party -- The cove -- Sublime child -- Around the dear ruin -- The diary of K.W. -- The stone boy -- Anna Lisa's nose -- Works of the imagination -- The mistress -- Lonesome road -- Myra -- The houses of the city -- Nocturne -- Like a motherless child -- The science of life -- Felis catus -- The light at birth.