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title	:	Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
author	:	Targan, Barry.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877450609
print isbn13	:	9780877450603
ebook isbn13	:	9781587292361
language	:	English
subject	American fiction.
publication date	:	1975
lcc	:	PZ4.T184Har 1975eb
ddc	:	813/.5/4
subject	:	American fiction.

Page i Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

Page ii The Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction

Page iii Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Barry Targan UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY 1975

Page iv The previously published stories in this collection appear by permission: "Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto," Esquire 66 (July, 1966). "And Their Fathers Who Begat Them," Esquire 69 (January, 1968). "Old Vemish," Salmagundi 24 (Fall, 1973). "... and still the heart doth sing," Sou'wester New Series:1 (Winter, 1973). "Tickets," Prairie Schooner 39 (Winter, 1965/66). "In Excelsis Deo," Twigs 8 (Fall, 1971). "Little Parameters," Salmagundi 19 (Spring, 1972). "Leaving," Denver Quarterly 6 (Autumn, 1971). "Leave My Mother Alone," Quarterly Review of Literature 17 (1971). "Charity Begins," Seneca Review 1 (May, 1970). "The Man Who Lived," Southern Review 10 (Summer, 1974). "The Clay War," American Review 18 (September, 1973). "Natural As Can Be," Salmagundi 12 (1970). "Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto" appeared in Stories From the Sixties, New York: Doubleday, 1971; "Old Vemish" in The Best American Short Stories 1974, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Targan, Barry 1932 Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn violin concerto. "The Iowa School of Letters award for short fic tion." CONTENTS: Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn vio lin concerto.Little parameters.Old Vemish. [etc.] I. Title PZ4.T184Har[PS3570.A59] 813'.5'4 75-17705 ISBN 0-87745-060-9 University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 1975 by The University of Iowa. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America

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Page vii Contents Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 1 Little Parameters 32 Old Vemish 53 The Man Who Lived 96 Leave My Mother Alone 111 Natural As Can Be 125 The Clay War 135 Charity Begins 161 Leaving 183 In Excelsis Deo 196 And Their Fathers Who Begat Them 204 Tickets 228 Elizabeth Lanier 243 "... and still the heart doth sing." 259

Page 1 Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto If a thing is worth doing, surely it is worth doing badly Alice Beltin labored up the thin wooden outer stairway leading to Josephine Goss's tiny apartment above Fulmer's dress shop. She opened the weather-stained door, streamed into the limited sitting room, and cried, "Oh, Josie. I think my Harry's going crazy." From the day thirty-one years before, when Alice and Harry had married, Josephine Goss, Alice's best friend, had suspected that Harry Belten was crazy. Thirty-one years' knowledge of him fed the suspicion. Her friend's announcement came now as no surprise. "The violin again?" she asked, but as though she knew. "Yes," Alice said, almost sobbing, "but worse this time, much worse. Oh God!" She put her hands to her head. "Why was I born?" "Well, what is it?" Josephine asked. "Oh God," Alice moaned. "What is it?" Josephine lanced at her. Alice snapped her head up, to attention. "A concert. He's going to give a concert. He's going to play in front of people." Josephine slumped a little in her disappointment. "Is that all? He's played in front of people before, the jerk. Do you want some tea?" she asked in a tone which considered the subject changed.

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