Patricia’s Reviews > Life Times: Stories, 1952-2007 > Status Update

This is a collection to be savored. The scope and variety surprises, entertains, and shocks. I don't read a book of short stories straight through the way I read a novel. The short story is often too intense. A novel is diluted with pages and pages of background, character analysis, scene-setting and digression. The short story, on the other hand is a straight shot, 100- proof, and goes right to your head. Shazam!