In Rattlesnakes three young Americans are lost in the desert, when one suffers a snakebite to his genitals. A Korean chef and a Chicago socialite find themselves connected through the disappearance of a pooch named Toto in The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park. In Miss Arizona a down-and-out director finds inspiration in the wife of a late indie director. The novella, The Kingdom of Fife, brings us to Scottish turf with dog fighting, a gangster father, a decapitated head, and being good at what we Yanks call foosball. And, in the title story, an ex-pat English bar owner living on the Costa Brava tries to keep all of his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaids weight at the sexual maximum, attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging Spanish killers.-- BOOK JACKET.