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a moment.  \nCavanaugh and his young sonare suspended;trapped in whata nurse calls 'the sweat chamber,where the boy will be tested forcystic fibrosis.  \nCavanaugh has brought  \ndistractions -spasmodic actionfigures,malformed toy trucks-but they do little to alter thefrustration of the sick childscreaming,or to alleviate theanxiety of the time spent waitingfor ‘some exactitude in the formof a diagnosis.  \nNYE  \nA Riverin Egypt  \nFaberStories  \nDavid Means's second collection of stories,AssortedFire Events,earned the Los Angeles Times BookPrize for fiction,and his third,The Secret Goldfish,was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor InternationalShort Story Prize.His fourth,The Spot,was selectedas a 2010 Notable Book by the New York Times.His first novel,Hystopia,was longlisted for the ManBooker Prize.His most recent collection of shortstories,Instructions for a Funeral,was published byFaber in 2019.Means's fiction has appeared in TheNew Yorker,Harper's,and Esquire among other pub-lications.He lives in Nyack,New York,and teachesat Vassar College.  \nFaberStories  \nA Riverin Egypt  \nff  \nFirst published in this single edition in 2019by Faber &Faber LimitedBloomsbury House  \n74-77 Great Russell StreetLondon WClB3DAFirst published in The Spot in 2010  \nTypeset by Faber &Faber LimitedPrinted and bound by CPI Group(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY  \n# All rights reserved\n\n◎David Means,2010  \nThe right of David Means to be identified as author of this workhas been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988  \nA CIP record for this book  \nis available from the British Library  \nISBN 978-0-571-35249-4  \n10987654321  \nhe hot air in the sweat chamber—as  \nI the nurse had called it,ushering themin—was humidified to make it even moreuncomfortable,and when he loosened his tiehe was reminded that he was the type whofelt it necessary to dress up for hospital vis-its,and for air flights,not so much becausehe had a residual primnes left over from hisMidwestern upbringing,which he did,butbecause he felt that he might receive moreattentive service if he came dressed with acertain formality,so that the nurses and doc-tors tending his son might see him,Cava-naugh,as a big-shot banker instead of anassistant art director who was known,if hewas known at all,for his last-minute designfixes.For example,he had once turned theinterior of a hotel lobby—one of the last ofthe classic (now defunct)SROs in midtown,  \nthe Abe Lincoln,just off Twenty-eighth andMadison—into a Victorian salon by throwinga few bolts of velvet around the windows ofthe downstairs smoking lobby  \nJust that morning,as he was leaving for thehospital,the director,Harrison,had calledto let him know that he was being droppedfrom Draconian,a big-budget sci-fi produc-tion that included a huge political conven-tion scene,filmed in an old dirigible hangarout on Long Island—a design job that haddrawn upon his expertise in plastic sheeting,banners 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