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  <default-description>Some say a hero will come to save the world from destruction, hopelessness and haywire weather; from powerful forces of evil -- political, spiritual, or perhaps personal. Is The Pisco Kid that hero, or merely a literary instrument satirically skewering rapture-theorist conservatives, libidinous liberals, and many groups in between? In a surreal post-flood fantasy-scape, maybe it'ss all a wash.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Standaert revives a now sadly neglected genre: the picaresque novel.  Full of savage humor a la Burroughs and Celine, there are few subjects that Standaert's acid does not rain upon.  If you're sick of wimpy contemporary satires, you'll be delighted with the downright dangerous Adventures of the Pis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2502349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The thing about Pisco is, he can't catch a break. The kid is winless. But he keeps moving, keeps reaching despite the waves of destruction that follow him. Surfing his wake is worth the risk, though. Michael Standaert takes the reader on one hell of a trip in The Adventures of the Pisco Kid.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6958867">more...</a>]]></body>
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