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3 1/2 stars.
An incredibly cerebral novel that defies novelistic conventions. I liked this less than Lerner's 10:04, but he's always a fascinating writer no matter what, since he creates prose through a poet's lens. I loved his descriptions of despising Americans in Europe who try too hard to blend in. ...more
An incredibly cerebral novel that defies novelistic conventions. I liked this less than Lerner's 10:04, but he's always a fascinating writer no matter what, since he creates prose through a poet's lens. I loved his descriptions of despising Americans in Europe who try too hard to blend in. ...more
We spend Adam’s fellowship year in Madrid with him, seeing it all through his eyes. Mostly what we see is Adam himself – confused, egotistical, hypersensitive, drugged out, intense, desperately adolescent. I actually met Adam in 1979; in fact, I met several versions of him that year when I was studying in Europe and encountered various grad students who were becoming “real” by living abroad and experiencing life in a way they were sure they could not in America. I felt like I lived that all over
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