附註:The first snow -- Violet -- The miracle -- Giancarlo, for a moment -- The greyhound -- All the best wishes -- The clear blue -- The birthday cake -- New math -- Brothers -- The last good man.
摘要:"A gripping and remarkably fine first collection of eleven stories, mapping the changing moral byways of a dying New England mill-town and angling inside the lives of town's often warring Irish, Italian, Wasp, and newer Puerto Rican inhabitants ... all of it rich in detail and theme."--Kirkus Reviews.