About the Author

Ed Allen, an associate professor of English at the University of South Dakota, has also worked as a taxi driver, butcher, and salesman. Allen's novel "Mustang Sally" has been adapted into a film, "Easy Six."

Reviews

In this collection of seventeen stories memory is potent, senses are sharp, and insight is keen. . . . What lingers are Allen's succinct word pictures and vividly crystallized moments.

--Booklist