About the book: 2017 / This collection includes the best stories of Irwin Shaw - “God was here, but has already left”, “Girls in summer dresses”, “Green nude”, “Then there were three of us”, “Inhabitants of Venus” and others. Sad and ironic, lyrical and caustic, but invariably marked by an amazing knowledge of the human soul. The themes of these stories are considered eternal - love and friendship, betrayal and betrayal, loneliness in a crowd, the high price one has to pay for success, complex relationships between men and women.