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Tom Mahoney is a certain kind of American businessman: good-looking, popular with men and women, athletic, dynamic, a guy who makes an impression and seems uncomplicated. And yet, as he approaches middle age, something in life has eluded Tom, a fact he is just beginning to realize. And he is starting to disappear from the lives of those who once surrounded him. In this series of short stories, Tom Mahoney is revealed from every perspective but his own: a buddy who knew him in college, his father, who senses something terribly amiss, a young couple navigating their way through the upper-middle class ranks, a woman who encounters him at a party, and others in his circle. In this debut collection, author Peter Levine paints a landscape of modern day Willy Lomans, all lonely, all desperate to connect to their even lonelier comrades.