Books by Thom Jones

A collection of stories which encompass the brittle dreams of a teenage boxer, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, a manic-depressive adolescent's passion for the heroine of "Tom Jones", an unemployed man's experiments with mice, and a Vietnam veteran's night-time swim across the English Channel.

Thom Jones's magnificent first collection of stories presents a brutal vision of the human condition, in a world without mercy or redemption.