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Article: The Road to Wellville.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- July 19, 1993
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By T Coraghessan Boyle (Viking, 476 pp., $22.50)
AMERICAN fiction writers of the hipper stripe have for some Awhile now been mistaking an ironic posture for an all-encompassing Weltanschauung. The end result is almost always the same--work that is too clever for its own good, and too meager for ours. T. Coraghessan Boyle is a clever chap who takes a Menckenian joy in robust and sometimes baroque language, and he is quite a deft spinner of tales. This novel, his fourth, is constructed around ...
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