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...entirely blame him for being confused: according to the San Francisco Chronicle, he had E-mail from Apple CEO Steve Jobs and board member Larry Ellison telling him he was hired. The E-mail was real--but the job offer was totally tongue in cheek. Seems Jobs was fed up with Murdock's persistent inquiries about the position and decided to handle it with humor...
Above all, though, the tongue-in-cheek chapter titles and neon-lit campy details capture the novel's overarching irony. As humor is Hartley's means of survival, it is also his means of narration: "Just when I'd decided I had the soul of a drudge, just when it came clearest I was the muddy flower-peddler, not her aftermath-princess, just when I felt that Immortality would only know me as a helpmeet, just when I'd gained six pounds, Farce, as it will when your happy-quota shades off into urban gray, intervened: all pinks, oranges, reds...
...Somerville resident reported that he was kicked in the right eye and cheek while at the Porter Square Dunkin' Donuts. The reporting person was treated at Massachusetts General Hospital...
Five months later, my husband agreed to pursue an adoption. As we chased down leads on four continents that repeatedly dead-ended, I never once regretted or reconsidered our choice. Fourteen months later, in a hotel room in China, a tiny hand reached up and touched my cheek. I was, at last, a mother...
...Paladin says Hit Man is being maligned unfairly, because it was written at least partly with tongue in cheek. "I have trouble taking the book seriously," says Thomas Kelley, lawyer for the publishing house. He argues that the book contains many "clearly absurd things," like its advice that hit men be careful not to remove their gloves--and leave fingerprints--if they help themselves to snacks in the victim's refrigerator. And Kelley says the book cover's boast that Feral is a hit man and a "lethal weapon aimed at the enemy of the one who pays him" misstates...