A highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ' The Shipping News' & ' Brokeback Mountain'. Just outside town beyond the drugstore & the diner there's another world
- a wilderness
- waiting to be explored. On the high wooded hillsides there are deer to be stalked; far upriver there are quiet pools of trout & grouse to be shot & traplines to be laid for fur. In the far-flung settlements of New England life revolves around hunting. Whether they are yuppies from the town who think that country life is improving or natives who know all too well that it isn't the men & women of these stories are all hunting for something better
- though getting by at all is hard enough. These are men & women who live love & lose; men & women who fall apart & who pick up the pieces who dream useless dreams & go on dreaming whatever the disappointments. Tough & tender & irresistibly humorous this unforgettable book takes its reader on a trail through the great outdoors to the innermost places of the heart.