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emerges instead as a surreal picaresque

From adolescent traumas to adulthood indignities, their anomie has been overdetermined

whose death on 9/11 seems to cinch the narrator’s redemption in the novel’s bathetic conclusion

the new heroines of contemporary fiction possess a kind of anhedonic equanimity, more numb than overwhelmed

When I became aware that you had upbraided Obama for fomenting class warfare, I couldn’t even imagine what set you off. It seemed comical. Here’s a president who brought Wall Street allies into his administration from the get-go.