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For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art...
"An interesting read, and she gets the mindless entitlement of colonial Americans right. But the book is full of anachronisms. I suspect her editor is 30-ish, and neither Rachel nor her editor seems to realize magic markers and plastic bags- to nam..."
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"a little too snarky for my taste. not my experience of Seattle in the early '90's, so it was hard to relate. well written but it was hard to find likable attributes in the narrator's voice, so it was tough to finish. read as part of a requirement ..."
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