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Title: Yawn.
Review: Badly written work masquerading as transgressive literary fiction. Bears the Mary Gaitskill seal of approval, always a bad sign. Features menus as chapter headings, another bad sign. Ends abruptly indicating the writer lost interest, a good sign. I lost interest, too, but sooner than the writer. Brevity works to the book's advantage, though. Yeah, it's still a yawn and a waste of time, but at least this careless tome can be read in the hour it takes to watch a piglet battle on Iron Chef. But...kudos bars and breakfast at Nobu to Evan Gaffney and Robert Maxwell! The cover's the best thing about this book, perhaps the baddest sign of all.
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