Ghost Dancer

From the award-winning author of <I>Paradise Boys</I> and <I>Scotch and Oranges </I> comes <I>Ghost Dancer</I> 21 original stories that look at American life with a reporter's eye-and dissect it with a surgeon's scalpel. </p><P> 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. </p><P>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 <I>Ghost Dancer</I> spans the Twentieth Century and the globe showing us the choices we make-and the consequences we face.</p>