A Sailor's Valentine and Other Stories

Set sail on rough seas with a full crew of fishermen, drinkers, lovers, and dreamers—who rarely catch what they want or deserve. Instead, they work and live troubled lives captured in brilliant detail by Craig Moodie, one of America's finest short story writers. Moodie's quietly suspenseful tales create a world where darkness is never far away—and where each new day is fueled by equal measures of hope and delusion.This new, expanded collection contains all of A Sailor's Valentine plus additional stories selected by the author. "Part of the originality of these stories comes from their joining of plain-spoken realism with phantasmagoria." – Castle Freeman, Jr. (from the Introduction)