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“Parker,” Lucy says suddenly, “do you think it was right for you to give it up?”

She knows she has broken some tacit code in asking this. Parker is silent. He opens his mouth to speak, but doesn’t. “I don’t know,” he finally says.

Lucy wants to press the point, but is afraid of pushing him to…

Manhattan Beach is a pastiche of the hoary literary devices and plotlines of disability

Dickens is one such nineteenth-century figure who particularly toys with aptronyms, such as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843).

In this regard, the PowerPoint chapter, “Great Rock and Roll Pauses,” works as a synecdoche for the entire novel, where gaps, pauses, and strict formatting rules define each slide.

Moments of prolepsis are repeated throughout Goon Squad¸ and particularly in “Safari.”