Lake Effect Days

Lake Effect Days is a powerful literary debut by Philip Sultz (born 1930), hitherto best known as a visual art artistThis cycle of very short stories about a group of young men in postwar Buffalo is told with absolute masteryColour illustrations - the writer's own collages - add to the powerful evocation of time and placeAppeals to multiple audiences: a senior audience, a Buffalo audience, a Jewish audience, a flash fiction audience - and this paperback edition will make it even more accessibleSultz is a native son of Buffalo, and these (fictionalised) stories are drawn from his days as a student at the Albright Art SchoolThis critically acclaimed collection of very short stories about postwar Buffalo, New York - illustrated in colour with the author's own collages - is now available in paperback."It all began in Buffalo between World War II and the Korean Conflict, as it was called, when the guys would meet up late at night in a diner for their brand of fellowship. They were mostly high school graduates in their late teens and early twenties, the sons of immigrant families. It didn't matter; there was little trace of that showing. They didn't look or act alike, but they had a sense of who they were, sort of proud for some reason, without much to show for it." - From the introduction.