Ghost Dancer: Stories Past the Edge of Remembrance

From the award-winning author ofParadise BoysandScotch and OrangescomesGhost Dancer, 21 original stories that look at American life with a reporter's eye'and dissect it with a surgeon's scalpel. From a young man grappling with the Kennedy assassination to a battle-weary Vietnam flyer, a ship's officer off Tierra del Fuego to a homesick soldier in war-torn France, we meet recovering alcoholics, aspiring actors, pimps and pols and busted-up football players'people who try to rebuild shattered lives on a landscape scarred by war, littered with fatal fires and shuttered steel mills, populated by dying sweethearts and unfaithful brides. In the tour-de-force title story, a young Lakota travels back in time to perform the Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee. Mendocino to Boston, Broadway to the French Quarter,Ghost Dancerspans the Twentieth Century, and the globe, showing us the choices we make'and the consequences we face.Mendelson, Abby is the author of 'Ghost Dancer: Stories Past the Edge of Remembrance', published 2006 under ISBN 9780595416226 and ISBN 0595416225.