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Review title: It's the story, stupid
Product review: Once again neurotic critics jumped at the chance to criticize a work publish but the youngest literary phenom. From the opening lines to the closing passages from the perspective of the 21st century, Mason engages a reader in a strangely surreal and vaguely gentile journey through the mind of a man who has lived his life through people and places and not (so much) through time. I cannot remember when I last read a modern novel which used language as something undisturbed by so-called "real" modes of speech and diction. At times characterization slips and his technique has not been refined but the kid has a gift of telling a story. It's a good read and has echoes, I think, of henry james. Derrida discovered a while back that the author is dead. He only seems to be revived by tormented, still unpublished 40 year old critics who feel threatened by true genius.
