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This collection of stories presents a fictional terrain of secrets, estrangements, and losses that are intrinsic in Dark's characters' lives. The title story is an intense tale of a mother tending to her dying son. In "Maniacs", two sisters love the same man. And in "Close", a young father-to-be visits his childhood home and contemplates escape from his wife.

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This collection of stories presents a fictional terrain of secrets, estrangements, and losses that are intrinsic in Dark's characters' lives. The title story is an intense tale of a mother tending to her dying son. In "Maniacs", two sisters love the same man. And in "Close", a young father-to-be visits his childhood home and contemplates escape from his wife.
Autorenporträt
Alice Elliott Dark is the author the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England, as well as two collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and  Naked to the Waist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, Best American Short Stories, and O. Henry: Prize Stories , among others. Her award-winning story “In the Gloaming” was made into two films and was chosen for inclusion in Best American Stories of the Century . Dark is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is an associate professor at Rutgers-Newark in the MFA program.