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...rest of the novel unfolds emotionally and sometimes comically. Jonathan, a beekeeper and insurance adjuster of low character, sees his opening: he keeps Hazel in his home, trying desperately to keep Hazel ignorant of their disputes. Meanwhile, an eclectic bunch comes to her rescue: Freddie, a black American roofer, Charlotte, an out-of-work actress and inveterate moocher, and Mr. Early, a designer of mannequin parts...
...were like a mudslide coming in after a bunch of concrete. I felt like we brought an organic element into the mixture," Paluzzi said...
...describing the effect marketing is having on culture. It would have made a great essay. As a book it includes a lot of interesting but extraneous material: the dance the interns do at MTV, for instance, or what Bill Clinton said to David Geffen. Seabrook has stitched together a bunch of his articles from the New Yorker to make this garment, and sometimes the seams show...
...portrays Rudy as the flawed protagonist--he's the "hero" that the audience roots for, but only because he's the lesser of several evils. In a movie in which first impressions can be deceiving and everybody is morally bankrupt, Rudy is, strangely enough, the honest one of the bunch. All he really wants to do is spend the holidays at home with his family--of course, his plans go awry when he and Ashley fall into the hands of Gabriel. His ability to counter-manipulate the manipulations of his captors illustrates a decent intelligence and his resourcefulness allows...
...might guess, this book does not admit much humor--it is, after all, an account of Daru's slow and painful descent from yuppie respectability to scumminess. But Moth Smoke never gets cumbersome, and even at its most heavy, the narrators are a sympathetic and colorful bunch. They are all, by Pakistani standards, moneyed and elite. (Even Daru, the novel's hard-luck case, has a servant boy.) Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems...