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In his third collection of tales, Wynne-Jones's seven stories plumb heaven and earth to reveal human nature with winning originality. The complexities and intricacies of families and friends are viewed, as in one story, as if through a "Pinhole Camera." Like that camera, Wynne-Jones focuses his attention "like a hole in the darkness, a hole that [leads] to somewhere bright."
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
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July, 1999