A Story That Ends with a Scream: And Eight Others

The author of Midnight Cowboy delivers a short story collection about the yearnings of those who live on the margins: "Herlihy writes with an edge of iron" (Nelson Algren).

In his second collection of short stories, James Leo Herlihy explores a landscape at the fringes of society. Drawn with his signature humor and deft dialogue, Herlihy's characters search for the fragments of meaning that have gone missing from their lives.

In the titular story, Mary Ellen McClure's unfulfilled, trailer ...