num_pages: 228
description: Ten stories provide jolting excursions through a world of desperation and fleeting transcendence, with protagonists ranging from a hard-luck fighter, to a drunken doctor in a remote African aid-station, to a strung-out advertising writer. Reprint.
language: English
title: Cold Snap
titlecomplete: Cold Snap
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Short Story Collection, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 836
publisher: Back Bay Books