Closers: Great American Writers on the Art of Selling

Our finest storytellers spotlight that unsung literary archetype--the salesperson. "Closers" collects the work of many of America's finest literary voices on a subject long at the heart of our commercial culture. Included here are famous pieces of memorable fiction from writers such as Arthur Miller, David Mamet, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, M.F.K. Fisher, Flannery O'Connor, Richard Price, Eudora Welty, and Thomas Wolfe. What emerges is a provocative portrait of the foot soldiers of our bottom-line culture. 352 pp.