Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories University of Nebraska Press Gene and Luis can't manage

Gene and Luis can't manage a civil conversation off the field or a competent play on it

and Ripley--love their summers at camp

but a mysterious assassin has been killing off the queen's heirs for years

Neruda on the Park weaves a rich and vivid tapestry of community as well as the sacrifices we make to protect what we love most

Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories University of Nebraska Press Gene and Luis can't manageNine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought.