On the Yankee Station by William Boyd
Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school ... Oddballs on the seedy side of America ... Murder in a quiet Devon cottage ... Comical, ironical or lacerating - wit is the keynote of these stories, which include two early adventures from the career of Morgan Leafy, glorious anti-hero of William Boyd's prize-winning novel `A Good Man in Africa'. `His writing, with nods in the direction of Borges and Nabokov, combines violence, comedy and experiment ... an impressively varied collection' Time Out.