"These fine, lean, elegant stories share two traits that are becoming increasingly rare in contemporary fiction: high intelligence and absolute unpredictability. Like the air conditioner in the story of that title, they fall swiftly, and change the lives of their protagonists, but never in the way one think they are going to. I will find them hard to forget."--David Leavitt
"These fine, lean, elegant stories share two traits that are becoming increasingly rare in contemporary fiction: high intelligence and absolute unpredictability. Like the air conditioner in the story of that title, they fall swiftly, and change the lives of their protagonists, but never in the way one think they are going to. I will find them hard to forget."--David Leavitt