The interlinked tales in thisLate Storiesdetail the excursions of an aging narrator navigating the amorphous landscape of grief in a series of tender and often waggishly elliptical digressions.

Described by Jonathan Lethem as "one of the great secret masters" of contemporary American literature, Stephen Dixon is at the height of his form in these uncanny and virtuoso fictions.

With Late Stories, master stylist Dixon returns with a collection exploring the elision of memory and reality in the wake of loss.