18 Stories Author:Heinrich Boll Here are 18 stories, written since 1950, by the celebrated German author of Billiards at Half-Past Nine and The Clown. Heinrich Boll tells us about a soldier who revives the flower business in a war-ravaged town and in the process loses his soul; a man who laughs for a living; a radio producer who is assigned the job of replacing 27 instances o... more »f the word "God" in a recorded talk with the euphemism "the higher Being Whom we revere." These stories display the enormous range of Boll's writing talent and his particularly wry brand of humanism.« less