All Around Atlantis

Populated by wayfarers, wanderers, and the just plain lost, these seven lucidly perceptive tales feel like exotic safaris into the deepest, darkest emotional landscapes. In two separate stories, an adventurous college student and an aging, frustrated classical musician find themselves in Latin American countries where seething guerrilla insurgency mirrors their personal insecurities. Throughout All Around Atlantis, short-story wizard Eisenberg wields a machete-sharp wit to hack some sense out of life's ''ornate tangling of growth and decay.'' A