Night Life : New and Selected Stories (Paperback)

Two brothers must make a grisly sacrifice in order to break free from their Hamptons home. A Colorado realtor pursues ever bigger sales in the rarified air of Rocky Mountain ski country. A nocturnal band of high school dropouts colonize the trees of Manhattan's parks, then, as their numbers grow, migrate upward and outward onto its bridges.

The stories of Night Life feature an array of characters seeking release-from the places that contain them, from each other, at times from gravity itself. Some fair better, some worse, but all become incandescent before the backdrop of night.