Books by Stephen (Johns Hopkins University) Dixon

But most of all it is a highly entertaining series of all-too-plausible vignettes that shows off Stephen Dixon's remarkable talent at its best.

It is a book that can be in turn frightening and funny, touching and tough-and one that is, on occasion, all these things at once.

From the author of "Frog", these short stories are about loss: culture, allurement, reliability, continuity, potency, companions, skill, child, parent, footing, prize, collection; as well as the flip-side of loss: imaginative recreation, creative refutation and self-destructive creation.