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The narrator of a caustic, elliptical novel by the author of Trout Fishing in America recalls life circa 1947, when he and his mother wandered in the Pacific Northwest, encountering a variety of eccentrics. "The style is disconnected, chaotic, redolent of alienation," Eve Ottenberg's review said, and the book's climax, "a horrible event," retrospectively accounts for "the flat shell-shocked meaninglessness that precedes it."
The New York Times Book Review
February 12, 1984, Sec. 7: 34.
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