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...half-dozen furious characters. It's brave, bold and so abrasive that you almost want to give up. You feel as if you're trapped in Michael Moore's head, being lectured on all his pet subjects. I was reading, but still, I almost went deaf. (See the best books of the decade...
...lead in the outrage stakes. She's mad at herself for not producing enough and at the art world for ignoring her, but she's most furious about having cancer, a rare form called mesothelioma, linked to asbestos exposure. Her family laments that illness is not bringing out the best in Glynis. She disagrees: "Maybe the best in me, to me, is hateful, vindictive and ill wishing ... I wish everyone else were ill, too." (See 10 health care reform...
...nurses his own resentments. He's long planned to ditch the rat race for what he terms the Afterlife, early retirement in a dirt-cheap yet pleasant developing country. Now, as Glynis' medical bills come in, the prospect of the Afterlife is dwindling along with his savings. Shep's best friend, toxic pontificator Jackson, spends his waking hours taking mental notes for an anticapitalist manifesto he'll never write, but his real problem is heartbreak over his 16-year-old daughter Flicka, who was born with a fatal genetic disease called familial dysautonomia. Flicka is angry because she is deformed...
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