Far from Home
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His plots are ingenious- Time Out
This long-overdue collection of Walter Tevis' s best short stories proves him to be a master of the form. they range from the ingenuity of The Other End of the Line, in which a man receives a phone call from himself in the future and follows the instructions he is given with unexpected and disastrous results, to the sophistication of Rent Control, where a couple discover that when they are in bed together they can literally make time stop, to the deeply-felt emotion of A Visit from Mother, whose protagonist is revisited by his dead parents.
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Entertaining and perceptive, the stories in Far From Homeshow the same talent which has made Tevis's novels The Man who Fell to Earthand Mockingbirdmodern SF classics.
The poetic imprints of a fine writer's trail- The Times
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