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greasy lake
Title: greasy lake
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 593 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
greasy lake
Mr. Boyle used variations of this tragicomic trajectory to wonderful effect in an earlier story collection, ''Descent of Man,'' and two novels, ''Water Music'' and ''Budding Prospects,'' all widely (and justly) praised for their manic wit, lush, baroque language and narrative invention. What hasn't been sufficiently emphasized, however, is that beneath its surface play, erudition and sheer storytelling power, his fiction also presents a disturbing and convincing critique of an American society so jaded with …showed first 75 words of 593 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 593 total…version of Gogol's surreal classic) and ''Rupert Beersley and the Beggar Master of Sivani-Hoota'' (a clever spoof of the detective yarn), as well as myth and fantasy in ''The New Moon Party'' (where a Presidential candidate is swept into office by promising to replace our old, pockmarked moon with a glittering manmade replacement) and ''The Hector Quesadilla Story'' (an aging Mexican ballplayer is inserted into a baseball game that apparently will go on forever).
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