Summer: 2 novellas

With these two short novels, Alex B. Stone demonstrates again the wry humor and compassion that have won admirers for earlier works such as If I Could Sleep (Red Heifer Press). Though the background is Jewish, the sensibility is universal. In SUMMER OF OPPORTUNITY, Harry Apple, a failed multimedia artist from New York, might feel out of place in Midwestern academia except for two facts: his college's sleek president, Pamela Millson, is on the make for him, and the foundation he's been asked to head has two million dollars plus nice artwork nobody is watching closely. Harry Apple's mother didn't raise a stupid son. In INDIAN SUMMER, Phil Weiss is lured home to the Midwest by aging parents who don't seem to notice they're driving him up the wall. By the author of Tales frm the Prayer House.