Counterparts (short story) youngest son, Tom, to make dinner but as the child lets the fire in the kitchen go out, Farrington's rage explodes and he starts beating the little child with a walking stick. The story ends with Tom pleading for mercy. For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of documents concerning the office's business. Counterparts (short story) "Counterparts" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners". The story recounts an evening in the life of a man named Farrington, frequently referred to simply as "the man". Farrington’s difficulties
Pastoralia (short story collection) Kurt Vonnegut. In 2007, "Entertainment Weekly" ranked the book #63 on its list of the top 100 works of literature since 1983. The following year, Todd VanDerWerff of "The A.V. Club" ranked it one of the ten best short story collections of the 2000s. Pastoralia (short story collection) Pastoralia is short story writer George Saunders’s second full length short story collection, published in 2000. The collection received highly positive reviews from book critics and was ranked the fifth-greatest book of the 2000s by literary magazine "The Millions". The book consists of stories that appeared (sometimes in different forms) in "The