TY - BOOK AU - Škvorecký,Josef TI - The swell season SN - 0701126736 U1 - 891.86 PY - 1983///, c1982 CY - London PB - Hogarth Press KW - Czechoslovakia -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction. KW - Czech fiction -- Short stories. KW - Short stories, Czech N1 - Translation of: Prima sezóna; "Chatto fiction"--Jacket; The swell season begins: a winter's tale -- The swell season picks up: oh, Maytime witch! -- The swell season falters: Charleston in a cage -- The swell season reaches a peak: a view from the tower -- The swell season changes course: a family hotel -- The swell season comes to an end: sad autumn blues N2 - Danny Smiricky's normal adolescent preoccupation with girls and his passion for jazz are overshadowed by Nazi terrorism in 1940's Czechoslovakia ER -