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Title: You pathetic little man
Review: Find the Holocaust's gone stale? One of history's great crimes getting dull and need a makeover? No, I didn't think so either.Amis, a brilliant stylist with no feeling for character consistently found anything more than clever lightweight books beyond him. The story of Tod T (geddit?) Friendly is told backwards. Writing a whole book backwards in time is an overextended gimmick. Dragging the Holocaust in (nearest available Great Theme) does not change this into an important novel.
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