Sixteen short stories, many with identifiable Chicago settings, constitute this representative collection of McManus's early works.
CONTENTS: Autoclysm.--Slip.--Picasso.--Rotation.--The Wrong Kind of Insurance.--Unclothed Singularities.--Ante Meridiem.--Roque Dalton Garcia is Dead.--The Skinner.--The Eye of Hunan.--Torque.--North America.--Young Seventh-World Women.--The Venturi Effect.--The Shack Dwellers.--Ithaca.