praise
"John Irving introduces this collection, one of the most powerful of the year. With any luck, it will lead readers to rediscover Williams's novels." --Kirkus Reviews
about the author
Thomas Williams (November 15, 1926 – October 23, 1990) published 8 novels and 2 short story collections. He taught at the University of New Hampshire for years. He won one U.S. National Book Award for Fiction—The Hair of Harold Roux split the 1975 award with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers—and his last published novel, Moon Pinnace (1986), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.