A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories

About the Book

" 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?)."

-Wallace Stegner

The stories in A Man of Middle Age are all distinctive, befitting a five-time winner of O. Henry Prize Story Awards.

"Patricia Zelver created Same Winkle, a man of middle age, with style and masterful economy in the title novella. It is a minor classic."

-San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

Patricia Zelver has published novels, children?s picture books and short stories which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Threepenny Review and numerous other literary magazines and anthologies. She received five O. Henry Prize Story awards. A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories was listed as an Editor?s Choice in The New York Times Book Review.