by Tom Bailey (Author)
These eleven quintessentially American stories fully demonstrate our unstinting capacity for love and loss. As The Atlantic Monthly's C. Michael Curtis puts it, "Tom Bailey's characters live in a world of deceptive simplicity. They move from job to job and in and out of prison, struggle to . . . understand loving attachment, make crucial misjudgments, defend . . . what they believe are manly virtues, and absorb deep . . . disappointments."
Author Biography
Tom Bailey teaches at the Writiers Institute at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Short Story Writer's Companion and the ditor of On Writing Short Stories. Widely published in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies, he is the recipent of A Newhouse Award from the John Gardner Foundation.