From the classic of modern American literature Jim Garrison, who became famous for the monumental “Legends of the Fall” (the basis of the film of the same name!), three stories about eternal passions and the beast in man. In this collection, a Michigan Indian wanders Los Angeles in search of a bearskin that was stolen from him and gets drunk with screenwriters and starlets; the author of three dozen cliched biographies (“bioprobes”) invites his ex-wife, a friend of his wild youth, to dinner; and an elderly millionaire, having retired from civilization into a deep forest, nurtures his young, without a king in his head, alter ego, dreaming of a beast that God forgot to invent...