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Title: A Scathing Farce
Review: This is a well-crafted novel that skewers the absurd appropriation of cultural forms (as reflected in popular culture, and politics) by the market-driven forces of global capitalism. Barnes describes a world in which a Disney-esque farce unfolds and eventually appropriates all that is "good and propah" about the English world, destroying the textured reality of life in the real England. Although Barnes' relatively inept description of personal relationships occasionally slows down the novel, his larger point about the inherent greed and unscrupulous avarice of global capitalism's marketing of hyper-reality comes across very forcefully. His sanguine conclusion, although disappointing to some, seems appropriate when situated in today's world of millennial madness.Overall, an excellent work. Fully recommended.
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