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...area to research the book, which is replete with vivid little descriptions of American lushes in "dry" Saudi Arabia, of rebels in Afghanistan, of rich Europeans in Abu Dhabi. But this is the stuff that's easy to write. More impressive is the author's ability to portray everday American life in an entertaining manner. There is a Harvard secretary who moonlights as an amateur detective until she meets a real one. There is the aggressive Congressional aide who draws a little dagger next to the name of the CIA official his boss is about to roast. There...
...resisted the contemporary trends to class portrayals and clear ideological perspectives in favor of examining more fundamental spiritual maladies, defined by the banality of everday existence. Tod Hackett of The Day of the Locust, recently graduated from Yale, is no less caught up in the Hollywood dream factory than his pan-handler and pimp friends. West grew to condemn not Americans but American ways and manners, evident in the leathery rationalizations of business leaders, as well as the radical polities of many of his friends...