Title: Wonderful.
Product review: I came to Straight Man through Amazon by way of Moo and Risk Pool. The latter was disappointing at the time, but maybe I wasn't in the mood. The comparisons with Moo are unfortunate, because both are wonderful books, Moo, I think, being Smiley's best, and in literature one book doesn't necessarily have to "win."Having said that, Straight Man is the book I've been waiting for this year. After reading three "10's" last year (The Shipping News, The Englishman's Boy, A Fine Balance), this year had been disappointing up to now, but Straight Man fixed that. Russo is like Richard Ford with a sense of humour, and Straight Man could have given Independence Day a run for the Pullitzer. Don't misunderstand, I loved it, too.A tangent.
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