This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pastsand proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story.

Beautiful. Will abruptly break your heart. The New York Times

The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russos novels. In Horseman, a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiaristas well as her own regrets. In Intervention, a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late fathers shadow. Voice gives us a semiretired academic who is conned by his estranged brother into joining a group tour of the Venice Biennale. And Milton and Marcus takes us into a lapsed novelists attempt to rekindle his screenwriting careera career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons (one living, one dead).

Look for Richard Russo’s new book, Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.