Introduction / Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker
marginal world from the Edge of the Sea / Rachel Carson
largest theme park in the world / I. G. Ballard
mexico / T. Coraghessan Boyle
from american beach / Russ Rymer
change of scene / David Malouf
midnight love feast / Michel Tournier
from the autobiography of my mother / Jamaica Kincaid
through the tunnel / Doris Lessing
beach umbrella / Cyrus Colter
i read my nephew stories / Ethan Mordden
goodbye, my brother / John Cheever
floor of flounders / Whitney Balliett
learning to swim / Graham Swift
from the stranger / Albert Camus
great barrier reef / Diane Johnson
perfection / Vladimir Nabokov
from turtle turtle / Monica Wesolowska
from cannery row / John Steinbeck
lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov.
