![]() But John Kennedy Toole's and Trevor Cole's novels are hilarious, while Hale's is, despite being a tragicomic picaresque, not all that funny. ![]() Norman Bray in Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life. Reilly inĪ Confederacy of Dunces and, more recently, It's worth noting that the author is 26 and eagerly flaunting all his philosophical and literary book smarts like so many noisy bonnets at an Easter Parade.)īruno himself is reminiscent of other pumped-up intellectual blowhards like Ignatius J. Pages of exhaustive detail, such as an apartment floor plan, might be interesting in the hands of master stylists like David Foster Wallace or Rick Moody, but Benjamin Hale is not a stylist. Despite an affinity for both talking animal narratives - whether for children or those of the NC-17 variety - and wordy, maximalist fiction, I found the first 200 pages of this grotesque romp both boring and annoying. ![]()
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