The Neumiller Stories

Larry Woiwode. Penguin Books, $8.95 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-14-014901-2

This collection of 13 stories, 10 of which first appeared in the New Yorker between 1964 and 1972 and form the basis of the novel Beyond the Bedroom Wall , portrays birth, domesticity and death as experienced by the German immigrant Neumiller family. ``Strong, insightful stories . . . depicting an arduous prairie life,'' said PW . (July)

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