Waves of Night and Other Stories

230 pp. "For two consecutive years, Harry Mark Petrakis has been nominated for the National Book Award fiction price, most recently for his novel A Dream of Kings and before that for his first collection of short stories, Pericles on 31st Street. Petrakis's long-awaited new collection of stories contains his most brilliant writing to date -- 'The Waves of Night,' a previously unpublished novella, which describes the dilemma of a Greek Orthodox priest who begins to question the meaning of life. His search for an answer provides the reader with an unforgettable, spell-binding dramatic experience." CONTENTS: Rosemary; The Sweet Life; Shearing of Samson; Witness; Bastards of Thanos; End of Winter; Victim; Chrisoula; Homecoming; Dark Eye; Waves of Night.