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While the central premise had some interest the naritive is constantly broken by intrusive "interludes" and even passages that directly address th...]]> 81928808 2242656 2623214 0099058405 9780099058403 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245916394m/2623214.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245916394s/2623214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2623214.The_Jagged_Orbit 5.00 1 Several separate narrative strands follow particular characters. James Reedeth is a young psychologist at NY's major mental health institution who's disenchanted with his job & his employer, the reverend Elias Mogshack. Lyla Clay is a pythoness, a young woman capable of metabolising certain psychedelic drugs to enter trances in which she makes unconscious predictions. Matthew Flamen, a spoolpigeon (a kind of investigative journalist), is struggling to hold onto his job, & by obsessive behavior has driven his wife into Mogshack's asylum.
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