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Jim
This book seemed to me to be an amalgamation of Psycho and Fatal Attraction. We are introduced to Francie, an Irish lad, and are held as a captive audience as he descends into madness. Except that he doesn't really descend; it might to be more appropriate to say he sidesteps into madness...he was pretty close to the starting point when he was at his best.

Francie is the product of a drunken, abusive, layabout father and a submissive and suicidal mother. He has few friends, only one really, but he
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