A Servant's Tale

"Part of the pleasure of a paula fox novel is the pleasure of language itself.... The New York barrio and the odd collection of people for whom Luisa works—a gay antique dealer, a woman who collects stray dogs and cats. a woman utterly controlled by the child she has spoiled—are finely and affectively drawn.... Paula Fox is ulti-mately Luisa's maid, tending her meditations and observations with careful and attentive, respectful.
grace. And, as always. she does so in prose as functionally perfect as Shaker furniture or a spotless window."