566 pages; soft cover

The critically acclaimed collection of O. Henry Awardwinning author Stephen Dixon's previously uncollected short stories, now in paperback. While some appeared in literary journals over the past 40 years, Dixon has entirely rewritten all of them; together, they comprise a wholly original work. Dixon explores obsessions of body image, the increasingly polarized political landscape, sex, and the gloriously pointless minutiae of modern life, in a style that owes as much to Neo-Realist cinema as it does to modern lit.