The reviewer of this book from the New York Times finds the protagonists[1] of the 11 stories in The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts to be underprivileged although they are residents of a very privileged area: the French Riviera.

[2] The reviewer of this book from Barnes & Noble wrote that even though none of the eleven short-stories are out of the ordinary, the author does however find strange goings on.

[3] This reviewer surmises that this collection of stories is uneven and the style of writing can make for monotonous reading.

According to John Pilling [4] there is insistent use of the present tense used throughout the book that produced in the mind of this reviewer "a kind of literary indigestion".

Also published as La Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers: [Nouvelles] (Le Chemin) Also published by Gallimard Education as Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers (La) (Collectin Folio) in a Mass Market Paperback format Also published as Ronde Et Autres Faits Divers (La) (Collectin Folio) by Gallimard Education There is a spoken version of "La ronde et autres faits divers"CD & MP3 as read in French by Bernard Giraudeau.