A Reversible Santa Claus (Annotated)

A Reversible Santa Claus is a compact Christmas novella that turns the conventions of burglary, domestic melodrama, and seasonal benevolence into a deft comic parable. Centered on a professional thief whose Christmas Eve enterprise is unexpectedly entangled with a child, Nicholson "reverses" the Santa Claus myth: taking becomes giving, criminal cunning becomes moral improvisation, and sentiment is...