Description: In his first volume of short fiction since the acclaimed "Rock Springs", Ford creates a portrait gallery of male characters who are as wounded, as rueful, and a touchingly vulnerable as Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Independence Day".
Review Quotes: "Superb.... Nobody now writing looks more like an American classic." --The New York Times Book Review
"Breathtaking." --The Boston Globe "Richard Ford is a born storyteller with an inimitable lyric voice." --Joyce Carol Oates "A Babe Ruth of novelists.... One of the finest curators of the great American living museum." --The Washington Post Book World "One of his generation's most eloquent voices." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times