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Title: Savor the prologue, trash the rest
Review: On a flight to Libya back in 96, my friend Steve handed me a copy of Harper's. Read this, he said, it's about the best you'll ever read. It was, of course, DeLillo's glorious story "Pafko at the Wall". Later, here it is as the prologue to some of the most verbose, long-winded, meandering drivel of recent years (apart from Salman Rushdie, natch). Does DeLillo even have an editor these days ? Anyway, if you can't get a back issue from Harper's, here's my tip: Borrow the book, photocopy the prologue and treasure it again and again at your leisure.
