Packet A: Tossup 9

In the title story of a collection by this author, a woman asks the narrator if he enjoys being “All dressed up, alone at a bar… quietly into your reading” before berating him about something he did by the shore three years earlier. That story references an earlier story by this author in which an old man at a beach tells the narrator that the “most important essence of life” is the “crème de la crème.” This author wrote about a man who described a time when he listened to Wagner operas (-5[1])in exchange for bread. (10[1])In another story by this author, (10[1])a man admits to his habit of burning (10[1])barns. (10[10]-5[4])This (10[1])author (10[5]-5[1])of (10[3])First (10[1]-5[2])Person (10[2])Singular (10[4]-5[3])and (10[1])The (10[1])Elephant (10[1])Vanishes (10[5])described a man (10[1]-5[1])who is (10[1])accused of killing his (10[2])cat by his wife (10[1])in a short (-5[1])story that later became the first (-5[1])chapter of a book about Toru Okada. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2])name this (10[1])author of The Wind-Up (10[3])Bird (10[1])Chronicle. (10[7])■END■ (10[16]0[4])

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