ARGONAUT BOOKS

Short Circuit is a little demonic machine, a hall-of-mirrors contraption that slowly converges upon its twin subjects until they fuse, in an act of intricate, puzzle-minded fabulism. Part Italo Calvino and part Ed McBain, it eventually becomes genreless, a conceit and a curiosity, singular and inimitable. - Jim Lewis, Author of New York Times Notable Book Ghosts of New YorkDrawing inspiration from M.C. Escher's mind-bending graphic art, Haas toys with literary conventions including double identities and problems of translation to dazzling effect . . . a clever, wryly funny ride enhanced by a m...Read More