CONTENTS

Part One

Out Like a Lamb

Running

Under the Lights

The End of a Season

Railroad Sketches

Part Two

Of Robin Hood and Womanhood

The Judge and Other Snakes

On Charon’s Wharf

Part Three

After Twenty Years

Into the Silence

A Salute to Mister Yates

Selling Stories

Marketing

Part Four

Two Ghosts

Intensive Care

Lights of the Long Night

Sketches at Home

A Woman in April

Bastille Day

Husbands

Breathing

Part Five

Broken Vessels

A Biography of Andre Dubus