BOTH Chris Ewart’s whimsical Miss Lamp and Howard Akler’s noirish The City Man make for great summer reading as they revel in an almost lewd love of juicy images and language's rich possibilities to tell their short, sharp shocks of stories.
As morsels of Coach House Books' recent work — Miss Lamp is new this season and The City Man was one of last season’s successes — they are tasty samples indeed.
