Stories for Boys and Other Tales (Paperback)

Two lovers gauge the depth of their intimacy on the Mexican Riviera. A schoolboy fights for an ideal of family in middle-class London. A journalist forges a death pact in India for the sake of a winning story. An exile recounts a ghostly tale among the charmed islands of the Aegean. Fish return miraculously to the barren waters of a port in Brittany. And life dazzles to deceive below the Caribbean sun. These ten tales of loving, longing, desire and regret share a scrupulous humanity and a fierce wonder at the promise of the world.