I have finished the set and the fifth story, "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" didn't work for me at all but the final piece--"Honey-Pie"--is a very leisurely piece with two parts which is rather Joycean in its psychological intensity but has a gentler, less cynical quality than we find in the Irish writer. It would be my runner-up story in the collection.
I'm very glad that I read this author but I'm not sure that I would be tempted to read his longer works.
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