Collected Stories

The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction establishing him as a master of the form. Revealing commentaries by the author introduce each story in this collection.</p>In <I>The Passing of the Ice</I> Polish icemen suffer the fate of some great doomed Greek line. In <I>The Song of Rhodanthe</I> a fleeting vision of love flowers within a grim social prison. In <I>The journal of a Wife Beater</I> an insufferable chauvinist male discovers to his horror and bodily peril that is wife is younger and stronger than he is.