In an Elevator with Brigitte Bardot

An irresistible collection of personal essays in which Michael Lee's characteristic humor and compassionate insight revolves around the experience of daily life in Cape Cod. Framed by broad-interest essays that travel far-afield and far abroad, the appropriate center of these appreciations is a seasonal round informed by place. But Lee's sense of place is not provincial. He always finds the extraordinary in the ordinary. Lee's achievement here in the short essay form is as remarkable as his achievement in short fiction with his debut collection, PARADISE DANCE (2002).