The author of the critically acclaimed Frog presents a collection of what he considers to be his finest short fiction that incisively captures the absurdities of urban America, the nature of modern... This description may be from another edition of this product.
The stories in Stephen Dixon's most recent collection drop the reader into the middle of the action with the opening lines. Here is a writer that creates a whole scenario with a few choice exchanges of dialogue or descriptions and involves the reader effectively. The conflicts are realistic, the tension convincing, yet ordinary. The charecters are diverse, although all have a certain humanity, which the author exposes without being perverse.
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