
By Lee Upton
Alternately chilling, humorous, devastating, and hopeful, those twenty tales introduce us to a theater critic who lands up in a scorching bathtub with the actress he regularly savages in reports; a biographer who struggles to find why a novelist stopped writing; a girl who searches via her earlier lives to remember a romantic stumble upon with the poet W. B. Yeats; a pupil who contends together with her predatory professor; and the poignant situation of the final satyr assembly his final woman.
Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette collage, Lee Upton is writer of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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