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"Jerry Battle, the ruminative narrator of Chang-rae Lee's affecting new novel, is a spiritual relative of both John Updike's Harry Angstoom and Walker Percy's Binx Bolling...In mapping Jerry's world, a small patch of Long Island somewhere between Cheever country and Gatsby's vanished green Eden, Lee gives us telling snapshots of the middle class and how one man comes to terms with "the plain stupid luck of your draw in a macrocosm rigged with absolutely nothing particular about you in mind." A wise, keeenly observed and even more keenly felt picture of the endlessly curious circumstance and befuddlement" that attens its hero's life."
"Jerry Battle, the ruminative narrator of Chang-rae Lee's affecting new novel, is a spiritual relative of both John Updike's Harry Angstoom and Walker Percy's Binx Bolling...In mapping Jerry's world, a small patch of Long Island somewhere between Cheever country and Gatsby's vanished green Eden, Lee gives us telling snapshots of the middle class and how one man comes to terms with "the plain stupid luck of your draw in a macrocosm rigged with absolutely nothing particular about you in mind." A wise, keeenly observed and even more keenly felt picture of the endlessly curious circumstance and befuddlement" that attens its hero's life."
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