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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Happy Like MurderersAstounding work. Combines facts with a fictional feel for place, dialogue and character. Left me feeling really dirty as if I'd been dragged through a selection of horrible, putrescent, vilenesses.
Already encountered him as a novelist so more accepting of the style which is, I would admit, unusual. Try Alma Cogan
Oh and just noticed you didn't finish it. The "repetition" is a way of illustrating the poverty of imagination and social morality amongst the whole of the social milieu in which Fred received his "education". It also suggests the ever popular Hannah Arendt line "the banality of evil".
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