The majority of these stories, set in and around Vancouver, B.C. take place in the present, or recent past. The remainder take place in England, France, Italy and Greece, and are set for the most part in the 1960s and '70s. Some of these stories are darkly disturbing, even difficult to read, while others are dryly ironic, and yet others walk a path between whacky humour and romantic. If there is a common link in them all, it is in the writer's penetrating look at how human beings might behave in the complex situations in which he has placed them. In the micro worlds that Faragher creates...