Barry Targan was born and reared in Atlantic City and recalls with pleasure prowling the bays and inlets. Targan is the assistant director at Skidmore College University Without Walls at Saratoga Springs.

 “The …book has in my judgment the best claim for its consistent excellence and maximum variety of character, setting, action, and implication within a unity of personal experience and concerns. Targan is not overtly experimental, but he is strong, solid, graceful, and often very subtle.”—George P. Garrett

 “Life, wit, and humor flow through every page. These 14 stories concern many things, but what they have in common is writing of power and beauty.”—Chicago Sun-Times