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Title: A good survey of short stories
Review: This volume contains selected stories from three of writer's previous books: The News of the World, Plan B for the Middle Class, and The Hotel Eden. It would be difficult to pull out any particular story from each selection as one's favorite. They are orginal and differ from each other. Some are quite funny, and deal with frustrations of coping with the expected rules of middle class lifestyle, others reflect on life in academia, and so forth.Included in the work are marvelous descriptions of nature, beautiful rendering of settings, trenchent summaries of physical attributes of characters, taunt dialogue and no wasted words anywhere. Reading his stories is a lesson in how to write and what to emulate in the selection of details.This book can be treasured and reread many times. I recommend it to anyone.
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