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Article: Steve Tomasula. VAS: an Opera in Flatland.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- September 22, 2003
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Art and design Stephen Farrell. Barrytown/Station Hill, 2003. 367 pp. $34.00.
Square is looking for an end to the story he is writing. His mother-in-law wants Square and his wife, Circle, to have a second child and go to the opera (but in reverse order). Circle, who besides a daughter has had a miscarriage and an abortion, wants Square to have a vasectomy. Square's indecision regarding all of this forms the plot of VAS, a beautifully vibrant collaboration between writer Steve Tomasula and artist Stephen Farrell. The story is told in fits and starts, separated by and interwoven with meditations on 100+ years of eugenics, pieces of dismembered comic books, and ...