Sightseeing

Sightseeing is the very best of almost award-winning author Andrew Smith's short fiction. All previously published in acclaimed literary journals, each story is a tour de force of narrative and characterization. Featuring protagonists such as: * a country policeman in an agonizing dilemma over a friend's possible guilt * a tourist's astonishing revelation about herself to a complete stranger * a homemaker and her nostalgia for romance in a shadowy...
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Sightseeing is the very best of almost award-winning author Andrew Smith's short fiction. All previously published in acclaimed literary journals, each story is a tour de force of narrative and characterization.
Featuring protagonists such as:
* a country policeman in an agonizing dilemma over a friend's possible guilt
* a tourist's astonishing revelation about herself to a complete stranger
* a homemaker and her nostalgia for romance in a shadowy ballroom
* a sex worker's disturbing self-discovery in the light of a client's needs
* a war survivor's hallucinatory delirium concerning her past life
* a drag queen, having killed another, is bemused by a charge of manslaughter
and much more.
Each story is masterfully told, vividly peopled, and evocatively located.