A choice of mildly weird stories about individuals in conflict with their environment that ranges from their physical body to their families to their origins and even to the style of the text they find themselves in. On the narrative level there is no constructive resolution to any of those conflicts, there never can be.

The small collection is quite heterogeneous: about half of the stories were written and published in early 60s, others are purportedly new. It is an inciting book that leaves you reasonably satisfied and confidently hoping that the author is capable to do more, better, as if he were a promising debutante. ( )