Publisher's Synopsis
Sightseeing is the very best of almost award-winning author Andrew Smith's short fiction. All previously published in acclaimed literary journals, each story is a tour de force of narrative and characterization.
Featuring protagonists such as:
- a country policeman in an agonizing dilemma over a friend's possible guilt
- a tourist's astonishing revelation about herself to a complete stranger
- a homemaker and her nostalgia for romance in a shadowy ballroom
- a sex worker's disturbing self-discovery in the light of a client's needs
- a war survivor's hallucinatory delirium concerning her past life
- a drag queen, having killed another, is bemused by a charge of manslaughter
and much more.
Each story is masterfully told, vividly peopled, and evocatively located.
