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Title: Surreal...
Review: The third story in this books is rare genius.It is a surreal/absurd tale of a construction worker's odyssey to expose a corporate plot to build a shoddy bridge. As Erde tries to do this, he descends from a manhole into a bizarre surreal world.The story is entirely readable, not some pretentious, un-readable, "pseudo-literary" nonsense.. like Italo Calvino or something. It reminds me of the writing of Danhil Kharms, Witold Gombrowitz, or Virgillio Pinera. This kind of surrealism is rare in English. I wish there was more of this-- ReYoung, write another novel!The other two stories are good also-- just not as unusual as the third.
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