Dixon's finely chiselled sentences cut to the quick of people's lives. None of these stories have been collected in any book before; they have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals over almost 40 years and Dixon has entirely rewritten almost all of them. Centrally concerning himself with the American condition, Dixon explores obsessions of body image, the political landscape and sex, in all its incarnations - and the gloriously pointless minutiae of modern life, from bus rides to tying shoelaces. He astutely captures the edgy madness of the city.