Time with Children: Stories

Elizabeth Tallent. Collier Books, $7.95 (157pp) ISBN 978-0-02-045540-0

``Tallent's prose styleprecise, elegant, cool, but grounded in compassionmakes this a standout collection, by a writer who has definitely come into her own,'' commented PW of these ``expertly crafted and exquisitely observed'' interrelated tales that, curiously, are arranged non-sequentially. (September)

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