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Title: 5 Stars; aside from which a description eludes me.
Review: This is a tough one to describe, but it's my favorite Ellis novel. Ellis aims this story at the classic horror genre but keeps steering the wagon off the rails into postmodern metafiction, a weirdly false autobiographical indictment of his own celebrity image, and some Cheever-esque forays into modern suburban gothic. If you have a twisted sense of humor, many scenes are genuinely hilarious. Perhaps most importantly, Ellis visits the complex emotions and dynamics of father-son relationships many times and with great effect - building to a transcendent ending to a novel so bizarre it almost feels unfair. In this reviewer's opinion, Ellis pulls it off masterfully and I look forward to reading it again.
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