Time with Children: Stories by Elizabeth Tallent. 1987 Knopf, first edition, 158 pages. Many of the stories in Tallent's second collection appeared in the New Yorker. 

Condition: Good+. Some wear to jacket, remainder mark and stamp on text block.

"I don't know why his Levi's always bleached like that, along the seams and at the knees. In a curve of cloth his zipper glinted, gold."