andre dubuss third book of stories now included in his collected short stories novellas includes the novella finding a girl in america which continues the life of hank allison a man haunted by his failures as a husband his concern for his daughter and his need for a new marriage that can survive his obsessive writers absorption with himself other stories including killings a swift and wholly successful tale of revenge townies about a young man whose affair with an undergraduate girl ends in deadly fury at saint croix the story of a man and woman both divorced whose caribbean spring vacation fails to exorcise his ghosts the pitcher where a baseball player can manage his arm but not his wife and the winter father a story of overwhelming tenderness dealing with a divorced father and his weekend attempts to reestablish contact with his two children subtle and haunting dubus concentrates his chekhovian attention on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep attachments nothing in current american writing seems more genuine than this writers fictions