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Title: another glorified graduate school project
Review: when i was in graduate school, we had two phrases for this genre of "experimental" american novel: bloated and showoffy. in those days all you had to do was write down all the adjectives you could think of before noon and pass it off as avant-garde literature. stones of summer might have been fun to read for the sheer preening self-loathing of it all if not for the fact that it takes itself so seriously. lighten up mr. mossman! and grow up. every female character is a demeaning sixties cliche. i can't believe any woman would traul through this labored adolescent boy's fantasy.
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