Recueil Des Voyages V6: Qui Ont Servi A L'Etablissement Et Aux Progres de La Compagnie Des Indes Orientales (1725)

These stories are a collection of darkly humorous, visceral, and honest, and sometimes images of life in America since the turn of the century. The characters are all trying to survive and get by in spite of living in a world where there is never enough, where hard work is not rewarded the way we are always told it will be, and where the divisions between the Haves and Have Nots are increasingly obvious. These are the In-Between People - the people who believed in the Middle Class American Dream and who have found it failing, but have nothing tangible to replace it with. The victories expressed are small and short lived, while the over arching machinations - institution, ambition, greed, loneliness, and isolation - are constants.