Ten Little Indians

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Amber Dermont

Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In "Lyndon," a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In "Damage Control," a young man works at an etiquette school while his girlfriend is indicted for embezzlement. A widow rents herself to elderly women and vacations with them as a "professional grandchild" in "Stella at the Winter Palace." And in "The Language of Martyrs" a couple houses a mail order bride on behalf of the husband's Russian mother.

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Anne Whitney Pierce

Ten stories on women. In Sans Homme, a girl falls in love with her mother's boyfriend, in Abeyance, a woman whose marriage is falling apart reflects on the loneliness ahead of her, while in Empty Beauty Salon, a woman moves her business from New York to Maine for a change of scenery.

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Perry Glasser

"Six contemporary American stories, mostly set in New York and the Midwest, that feature characters who seek to survive as they confront an array of dangers, from emotional fear to physical peril"--Provided by publisher.

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Padgett Powell

Aliens of Affection marks new territory for Padgett Powell, picking up where his first collection of stories, Typical, left off. Although his characters continue to revolt against the received instructions of modern American living - refusing to be dunked in what Saul Bellow has called the "marinade of correctness" - their concerns are less for independence than for the maintenance of sanity itself. Emotional estrangement seems both inevitable and worth fighting against to the middle-aged heroine of the O. Henry prizewinner "Trick or Treat"; to the unmistakably American roofer of "Wayne" (who was introduced in Typical); to the deserted husband, father, and non-vet of "Dump"; and to the fantastic heroes in three stories grouped as "All Along the Watchtower."