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A collection of stories chronicles the menace and unease that lurk in small town America, turning attention to the dark, inescapable forces that test the patience, fidelity, and even good sense of the most ordinary people.
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In his first collection of stories, Stephen Dobyns, one of our most accomplished writers, examines the lives of men and women challenged by their own uncontrollable, illogical natures: poets with free floating guilt, spouses with unacceptable sexual compulsions, farmers with midlife crises, gas men with erratic timetables. Marriages unravel, well-laid plans dissolve, and placid lives are turned upside down in this sharp, funny, and profound collection of short fiction.
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