The Principle of Interchange and Other Stories

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  • This
  • is
  • the
  • Twenty-Fifth
  • Anniversary
  • Edition
  • of
  • P.
  • V.
  • LeForge's
  • first
  • collection
  • of
  • stories.
  • Choirboys
  • await
  • the
  • return
  • of
  • a
  • Mexican
  • bandit
  • to
  • their
  • church--despite
  • the
  • fact
  • that
  • he
  • has
  • been
  • dead
  • for
  • 100
  • years.
  • A
  • two-bit
  • comedian
  • is
  • inhabited
  • by
  • the
  • soul
  • of
  • his
  • agent--who
  • he
  • has
  • just
  • murdered.
  • A
  • dying
  • man
  • receives
  • a
  • visit
  • from
  • a
  • grandson
  • he
  • has
  • never
  • seen.
  • An
  • obsessed
  • police
  • inspector
  • rents
  • the
  • apartment
  • of
  • a
  • young
  • woman
  • who
  • has
  • committed
  • the
  • most
  • terrible
  • of
  • crimes.
  • An
  • old
  • drunk
  • in
  • Alaska
  • invents
  • a
  • super
  • alter-ego
  • to
  • battle
  • the
  • bigotry
  • and
  • unfeeling
  • he
  • sees
  • around
  • him.
  • These
  • and
  • other
  • characters
  • and
  • situations
  • come
  • vibrantly
  • alive
  • in
  • this
  • finely
  • wrought
  • collection
  • from
  • a
  • talented
  • writer
  • and
  • storyteller.
  • In
  • locales
  • as
  • diverse
  • as
  • Florida,
  • Alaska,
  • Panama,
  • Mexico,
  • India,
  • and
  • China,
  • P.V.
  • LeForge
  • paints
  • a
  • picture
  • of
  • life
  • that
  • is
  • both
  • rich
  • and unique.
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