PositiveThe Los Angeles TimesSudden Death isn't normative: a short screenplay and the author's emails are interspersed with short entries from obscure sporting dictionaries and excerpts from humanist classics. Chapters are short, enticing and written with a casual erudition that whispers to readers that, no matter the apparent surprises of the game, the author is in full control ... Sudden Death affirms the joys of play amid a drowning world.
