Title: mostly lousy, some good bits.
Product review: Helprin is one of my absolute favorites, but not when he writes second-rate material like this. Less a novella than a gloomy satire on...things Helprin doesn't like (media, ideology, computers, progressive education [! ]), this book reveals a great visionary to be a great crank as well. Reread Winter's Tale or Swan Lake instead.
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