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1.1  1979 edition  





1.2  Limited 1977 edition  







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Cruel Shoes
AuthorSteve Martin
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort story, Humor fiction, Absurdist fiction
PublisherG. P. Putnam's Sons

Publication date

1977 (limited edition),
June, 1979 (1st trade hardcover printing)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages179
ISBN0-399-12304-0 (trade hardcover 1st printing)
OCLC105863285
Followed byPure Drivel (1998) 

Cruel Shoes is a collection of essays and short stories by Steve Martin and is also the title of one of the essays included, a satirical short-short story about a woman in a shoe store.[1]

Cruel Shoes was Martin’s first book, released in 1977 as a handmade limited edition of 750 signed and numbered books published by Press of the Pegacycle Lady (Victoria Dailey). The cover is just pale paper over pressboard. It only contained 48 pages and many of the stories that appeared in the trade version were not included.

Table of contents

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1979 edition

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The works included in the 1979 trade edition of the book are:

Limited 1977 edition

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  1. "Confessions"
  2. "Smokers"
  3. "Jugs"
  4. "Women"
  5. "Poodles"
  6. "Alfredo"
  7. "Cows"
  8. "Self-review"
  9. "Serious"
  10. "S.M. Collection of Am. Art"
  11. "Day"
  12. "Sex Crazed"
  13. "Wrong #"
  14. "Morse"
  15. "Gift"
  16. "Fold Soup"
  17. "Dr. Fitzkees"
  18. "Morning"
  19. "Year"
  20. "Last Thing"
  21. "Other Books"
  22. "My Uncle's"
  23. "The Day"
  24. "Children"

References

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