Sailing Away Short Stories Author:Richard Morgan Richard Morgan's crisp stories of confrontation and flight capture perfectly those epithanal moments when the longing to escape becomes the longing for transcendence and unexpected or forgotten promise suddenly blooms. These are the stories of the Viet Nam generation, a generation in one way or another at sea from adolescence to middle age, told... more » with a wit, tenderness, and attention to lore seldom found in contemporary fiction. And as if that weren't enough to recommend them, they are often screamingly funny. Christopher Howell« less