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These hard-hitting, deeply felt stories follow straight arrows and outlaws, have-it-alls and outcasts, as they take stock of their lives and missteps and struggle to rise above their turbulent pasts. A salesman re-examines his tenuous relationship with his sister after she is brutally attacked. A house painter plans a new life for his family as he plots his last bank robbery. A drifter gets a chance at love when he delivers news of a barfly's death to the man's estranged daughter. A dissatisfied yuppie is oddly envious of his ex-con brother as they celebrate their first Christmas together.…
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2 editions- Ebook · English · 2008Little, Brown and Company · 9780316040259
- Hardcover · English · 2007Little, Brown and Company · 256 pages · 9780316017367
LiteratureFictionAmerican Short storiesFiction, short stories (single author)California, fiction
