Thirteen extraordinarily evocative stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author chronicle all the telling moments in the joy and pain of life. Includes Killing, The Family Meadow, The Orphaned Swimming Pool, A&P, Gesturing, Snowing in Greenwich Village, Bulgarian Poetess, The Persistence of Desire, The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals, Lifeguard, Your Lover Just Called, Ace in the Hole, and Pigeon Feathers. "Sterling performances."—AudioFile