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"The stories' readability is partly in their basic voyeuristic appeal...and partly from Ford's mastery of narrative pace. He knows how to hold back on a good twist, produce a shock in an insulated life. Even if, here, the twists and shocks are too often of the animal variety....[T]he constraints of the short story [make] his handling of people terser, thinner, than ever, lives reduced to the barest handful of details...."Ford, Richard is the author of 'Multitude of Sins Stories' with ISBN 9780375726569 and ISBN 037572656X.
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