Ticking Along Free: Stories about Switzerland

If you enjoy 'Ticking Along with the Swiss' and want to keep 'Ticking Along Too', then move on to 'Ticking Along Free'. Join 38 authors who are coming and going, climbing cliffs, finding jobs and a plot, exploring the myth of lousy lovers, plunging in and out of trouble and on the wrong trains, making new friends on benches, or in places for women only. Discover a dog that drives a car and a car that saves Christmas, feel how cultures sometimes clash when you're stuck between two worlds. The authors come from Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, England, Ethopia, Ghana, the Philippines and the USA. Some simply can't remember. Some have always been and will always be Swiss. All are at home, yet foreign, and making the best of it. This collection also includes stories by some prominent Swiss authors: Franz Hohler, Hugo Loetscher, -minu, Gisela Widmer, Emil Zopfi.

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Ticking Along Free: Stories about Switzerland

If you enjoy 'Ticking Along with the Swiss' and want to keep 'Ticking Along Too', then move on to 'Ticking Along Free'. Join 38 authors who are coming and going, climbing cliffs, finding jobs and a plot, exploring the myth of lousy lovers, plunging in and out of trouble and on the wrong trains, making new friends on benches, or in places for women only. Discover a dog that drives a car and a car that saves Christmas, feel how cultures sometimes clash when you're stuck between two worlds. The authors come from Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, England, Ethopia, Ghana, the Philippines and the USA. Some simply can't remember. Some have always been and will always be Swiss. All are at home, yet foreign, and making the best of it. This collection also includes stories by some prominent Swiss authors: Franz Hohler, Hugo Loetscher, -minu, Gisela Widmer, Emil Zopfi.

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Ticking Along Free: Stories about Switzerland

Ticking Along Free: Stories about Switzerland

Ticking Along Free: Stories about Switzerland

Ticking Along Free: Stories about Switzerland

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If you enjoy 'Ticking Along with the Swiss' and want to keep 'Ticking Along Too', then move on to 'Ticking Along Free'. Join 38 authors who are coming and going, climbing cliffs, finding jobs and a plot, exploring the myth of lousy lovers, plunging in and out of trouble and on the wrong trains, making new friends on benches, or in places for women only. Discover a dog that drives a car and a car that saves Christmas, feel how cultures sometimes clash when you're stuck between two worlds. The authors come from Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, England, Ethopia, Ghana, the Philippines and the USA. Some simply can't remember. Some have always been and will always be Swiss. All are at home, yet foreign, and making the best of it. This collection also includes stories by some prominent Swiss authors: Franz Hohler, Hugo Loetscher, -minu, Gisela Widmer, Emil Zopfi.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783905252026
Publisher: Schwabe
Publication date: 04/01/2000
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.71(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction
Going Home
Clash of Cultures
The Swiss 'Invade' Italy
The Laundry Room Key
At Home, Yet Foreign
Alternatours
The Myth of the Lousy Swiss Lover
Mr. Right
Full Stop
Off Track
The Visit
The Encounter
Choices
A Job, a Home, a Future
Making Friends
A Christmas Tree for the Cat, Good Fences
Sounding Brass
Typically Swiss, I guess? Swiss at Play
Climbing to the Top
Here or There, Us or Them
Changing Angles
Kosovo, yes
On the Sidewalks of Geneva
Testing Times
Left...left not right!
Coming (to) Full Circle
How to Stay Young
Women Only, Dead-End
Looking Down on the World
At the Risk of Sounding Boring
The Wildest Winter Sport of All
Alive and Well and Living in Babel
The Art of Swiss German
Tips for Doing Business
A Golden Story
The World's Greatest Wine Party
In Search of a Plot
The Crowded Hermitage
Between Two Worlds
I Becoming Swiss
The Rhine will Wash Everything Clean
Second Homecoming
Icarus
A Gift
An E-Mail Story
Coming Home
List of Authors
Index of Authors
Credits and copyright notices

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