A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of
American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a
master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and
riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story
collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy
expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and
affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever,
Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.