A small Austrian town isn't a bed of roses, especially not when you have been born with a visible defect like the protagonist of this shattering short novel from the early 1990s. In Winter Quarters the author depicts the fate of a woman in her early forties who is doubly handicapped: she was born ...
The Distant Sound is an old friend you encounter while driving down a residential street. You're driving in one direction and The Distant Sound is coming toward you the opposite way. You both recognize the other's car and slow down, rolling down your windows, so that you can say hello.As soon as The...