The Sleep of Baby Filbertson: And Other Stories

This short story collection by the acclaimed author of Midnight Cowboy explores the desperate lives of outsiders with unflinching insight.

In his first collection of short fiction, James Leo Herlihy examines the experiences of alienation and isolation while elevating the oddities and quirks that make up human nature. These seven tales tackle the anxieties of fragile people and get to the heart of a world inhabited by perennial outsiders.

Agoraphobic Daisy Filbertson and her teenage son Rud...