(Paperback)

Noted as one of "Esquire's" top five books of 2000, this collection of powerful stories offers deeply etched portraits of a group of disparate people in the Shenandoah Valley who evoke an impressive geography of the land and the heart.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

In "Pitiful Criminals" Greg Bottoms offers thirteen genre-bending chapters from his past that take a close look at the lives of small-time criminals driven, often by confusion and desperation, to deeds that range from the absurd to the heinous.

(Hardback)

By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, "Fight Scenes" takes an unsparing look at juvenile disaffection and the dark side of white, working-class masculinity. In a pared-down, highly readable style, Bottoms shows how even the most accepted forms of "toughness" can be damaging.