This treasure chest of a book, containing his complete short stories and novellas, spans forty years, and introduces another generation to one of the great prose stylists of our age...For this edition we have included some sixteen stories never published before in the USA, a new introduction by the author, as well as his afterword to Proxopera .At almost 800 pages, this is the most extensive and ambitious work of fiction our small company has ever issued. Kiely is a member of a select club that includes Chekhov, Welty, Peter Taylor, and another author whose work we championed—Andre Dubus—all writers whose stories cut close to the bone and near to the heart.