W9 and Other Lives

Stories in an international setting by an Irish writer. The title story describes the effect on parents of a son's suicide, in Telephone Sex a woman wrongly accuses her man of infidelity, and in Four Pesos a tourist betrays a Cuban maid to the authorities.A collection of shorts stories features a scholar who writes his autobiography just in time, a young man terrorized by a dog, and a devastating series of phone calls from a stranger