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Title: Kirkus Reviewer Missed The Boast By "Miles"
Review: I am honored to have in my possession an advance copy of ONE OF THE GUYS and am stunned by what I read yesterday in the so-called review from Kirkus Reviews, dated March 19, 1999. I'm wondering whether the reviewer and I read the same novel. Because his or her story synopsis--though replete with factual errors--seems to have some of the elements of the novel that I read, I must conclude that we did have the same book in our respective hands, but that we experienced it very differently. In the first place, the style of Young's tale is that of a satire. They say the purpose of the satirist is to expose human error to withering ridicule, often through the use of hyperbole and irony. Either the reviewer does not get satire or did not read this book. I suspect it is both.
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