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Word: dekidnap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1969-1969
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...lives of his invented and remembered populace. In the author's second novel, Hind's Kidnap, the protagonist is obsessed by the search for a kidnaped four-year-old child, as well as a hunt for clues to his own early background, and the attempt to dekidnap himself and all his friends who have been stolen away from their childhood into an adopted adulthood. The excellent but dumfoundingly prolix result is an often funny, painfully intense psychological detective story filled with Double-Crostics, Nabokovian word games and revelations that tantalizingly obscure as much as they reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Present Imperfect | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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