Someone to Watch Over Me

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 214. Quarter-bound white cloth over cream paper boards, lettered in silver to spine; rough-cut fore-edges. Jacket design by Marc Cohen.

Author's fifth short story collection. Many of the stories here first appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Esquire, while "Nobody in Hollywood" was included in the anthology Best American Short Stories 1997. Currently Professor in the Writing Program at Chapman University in Orange, California, to date he has published twelve novels, eight short story collections, and one volume of poetry and prose. "Among the most masterful of American fiction writers." –Boston Globe