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"This novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written...by any American novelist. This book is as funny as anything Wolfe has ever written. At the same time, it is also deeply strangely affecting." NY Times Book Review.
"Everything you want a novel to be..." The Orlando Sentinel
"A review of this complicated, but logically laid out novel would be a novel in itself. Suffice to say, this is still a fairly easy read thanks, in no small part to, Tom Wolfe's writing style. Crisp, insightful of human nature and the culture of greed, politics, law, and race make for a volitile mix set in Atlanta, Georgia; a belle of the south. Wolfe's novel digs deep behind the facade to discover a city's equivalent of "family secrets" and he paints a picture of human nature in all its complexity, and darkness..."
"Raymond R. Rubino, M.Ed., PC"
"Everything you want a novel to be..." The Orlando Sentinel
"A review of this complicated, but logically laid out novel would be a novel in itself. Suffice to say, this is still a fairly easy read thanks, in no small part to, Tom Wolfe's writing style. Crisp, insightful of human nature and the culture of greed, politics, law, and race make for a volitile mix set in Atlanta, Georgia; a belle of the south. Wolfe's novel digs deep behind the facade to discover a city's equivalent of "family secrets" and he paints a picture of human nature in all its complexity, and darkness..."
"Raymond R. Rubino, M.Ed., PC"
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