Cruel Shoes
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Cruel Shoes is a collection of mostly-humorous essays and short stories by Steve Martin, and his first published book, and is also the title of one of the pieces therein, a satirical short-short story about a woman in a shoe store.
The works included in the book are:
- My Uncle's Metaphysics
- Demolition of Cathedral at Chartres
- The Confessions of Raymond to His Goldfish
- The Boring Leading the Bored
- Cruel Shoes
- The Bohemians
- Serious Dogs
- The Diarrhea Gardens of El Camino Real
- Turds
- The Undertakers
- The Day the Dopes Came Over
- The Smokers
- She Had The Jugs
- Sex Crazed Love Goddesses
- Women Without Bones
- The Children Called Him Big Nose
- Wrong Number
- Morse and the Naughty Magnets
- Dynamite King
- The Gift of the Magi Indian Giver
- Poodles... Great Eating
- Shuckin' the Jive
- How To Fold Soup
- The Vengeful Curtain Rod
- Cows In Trouble
- The Complete Works of Alfredo Francesi
- Society In Aspen
- The Day the Buffalo Danced.
- Things Not To Be
- No Man's Land
- Oh Mercy, The Prose-Poem Tryptch!
- Comedy Events You Can Do
- Dr. Fitzkee's Lucky Astrology Diet
- The Morning I Got Out of Bed
- What to Say When the Ducks Show Up
- The Year Winter Lasted Nine Minutes
- The Almaden Summer
- The Nervous Father
- Dogs In My Nose
- Awards
- Rivers of the Dead
- When Men Shop
- The Last Thing On My Mind
The entire text of the book can be found on "The Compleat Steve"; selected works, including the title story, can also be found at Steve Martin's official site