These nine stories - many of them in novella length - display the entire scope of The Amboy Dukes, author Irving Shulman's unique style. Each offers a highly individual look at a segment of experience - caught mercilessly, ruthlessly explored, and with overtones that echo long after the reader has reached the end of the last page.

Titles include: 'Tears to Drown the Wind,' 'Every Job's an Education' and 'Your Hands Entrap my Quivering Heart' .