Rent A Multitude of Sins

Synopsis

The stories' readability is partly in their basic voyeuristic appeal...and partly from Ford's mastery of narrative pace. He knows how to hold back on a good twist, produce a shock in an insulated life. Even if, here, the twists and shocks are too often of the animal variety....[T]he constraints of the short story [make] his handling of people terser, thinner, than ever, lives reduced to the barest handful of details....

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