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Title: roman a clef
Review: With the death of one of the real-life persons in the story which inspired this work of fiction, this book has now become dated, an historical artifact, a "roman a clef" in which the most recent readers find clues to the circumstances of events in another time and place. The particular person, who in real life has now been deceased for some years, had a lengthy career with considerable exposure to the public eye and with connections to numerous people, some of them celebrities. The career of this person has naturally become Internet virtual-reality fodder, with highly polarized pros and cons preserved on the web. And perhaps it will be because of this figure that this book, in the end, will continue to be read.
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