year—a flight that consisted mainly of taxiing. “The perfect jumping-in book for readers new to Kraft’s vividly rendered and gleefully satirical fictional cosmos.” — Newsday
Love at First Sight
. . . in which Peter is in danger of becoming an arrogant, insufferable little egoist —until something happens that saves him. He falls in love with Albertine Gaudet. That is the end of egoism — and the start of one of literature's great romances. “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” — Humbert Humbert