"In his first collection of stories, McLeod catalogues with wit and insight the lives of characters who are brash, devious, lonely and troubled. In prose whose rhythmic lyricism often unspools like epic poetry, Charles McLeod constructs astonishingly vivi
Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.In our bureaucratized culture, we're inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of