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Desires

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John L'Heureux has written many fine books. Some of the novels are still in print. My favorite work of his, though, can be found in his two story collections -- Comedians and Desires.

Comedians is generally the more popular and highly regarded. For my money, though, Desires is the better book. It has my two favorite L'Heureux stories: "Brief Lives in California" and "The Priest's Wife." The other stories are worth the reader's time, too.

There are more L'Heureux stories floating around uncollected. I've found some of them in literary magazines like Epoch, but I bet I've missed a lot of them, too. Nobody tracks these things, except, probably, Mr. L'Heureux. I wish I was an editor at Knopf or Farrar, Straus, Giroux, so I could bring out The Collected Stories of John L'Heureux, a book that ought to be on the shelves of every library in the United States, for the sake of the pleasure it would bring us all.

Meantime, I'm going to have to satisfy myself with my used copies. The fact that I have been able to purchase them here on Amazon.com makes the Internet worth having.