“In the feeling with which you write about Krivich’s books, there is something of the pleasure that you experience when you enter the warmth of an apartment from a cold and dank street and knock back a couple of good shots of vodka. Krivich’s hero has a remarkable property - the ability to look at himself from the outside, to see your weaknesses, to be the first to smile at them... Krivich’s prose is substantial, dense in texture, tense and dynamic; her pulse, as doctors would say, is invariably smooth and of good filling""Book Review"