In this new collection of thirteen short stories, O. Henry Award-winning author Greg Johnson displays all the wit, irony, and insight into human relationships his readers have come to expect. After a family argument, a teenaged boy takes refuge in a backyard tree--until his drunken father decides it's time to get him down. A close-knit, working-class family experiences new pressures when a troubled uncle comes home from the "hospital." Entering a darkened theater for an afternoon matinee, a young man recovering from a failed romance unwittingly sits down next to the only other member of the audience. And a Key West honeymoon seems eerily innocent until the past catches up with the bride and groom.
- ISBN10 0801853753
- ISBN13 9780801853753
- Publish Date 19 June 1996
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 31 March 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English