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Driving on the Rim
Driving on the Rim
Author: Thomas McGuane
The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. “Berl” Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents’ itinerant rug-shampooing...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781400041558
ISBN-10: 1400041554
Publication Date: 10/19/2010
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
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This book is an exercise in torture. What's really astonishing is after the first (horrible) three chapters, I kept inflicting this text on myself. The story itself is not bad, but it is bogged down by inconsistent rambling thoughts of the protagonist. It is safe to say Mr. McGuane's editor fell down on the job.


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