A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories

. Patricia Zelver's humor is like a kitten hiding behind the sofa waiting to dart out and take a couple of slaps and dash back in. Her stories make me do what I practically never do laugh out loud (What's to laugh at most of the time?).</P>-<B>Wallace Stegner</B></P>The stories in <I>A Man of Middle Age</I> are all distinctive befitting a five-time winner of O. Henry Prize Story Awards.</P>Patricia Zelver created Same Winkle a man of middle age with style and masterful economy in the title novella. It is a minor classic.</P>-<B><I>San Francisco Chronicle</I></B></P>