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...United 93, are nearly nameless. The spirit with which they fight to escape their fate suggests the way other 9/11 victims might have resisted, given the chance, thereby lending a grander sense of purpose to Greengrass’ film. On the other side of the spectrum is Ken Kalfus?? new novel “A Disorder Peculiar to the Country,” (see review, B3) which portrays the acrimonious divorce between Joyce and Marshall Harriman. Although the novel has a tighter focus than “United 93,” it isn?...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 9/11 Art Shoots For the Heart | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

Kalfus mirrors the postdiluvian upheaval in the U.S. through the battles fought in the Harrimans’ marital war. Both the commentary in Kalfus?? novel and the joy of reading it radiates from this nearly-pornographic voyeurism into the couple’s fights, the epic “blistering argument[s] encompassing all the issues that had brought them to divorce in the first place,” and their underlying emotional dysfunction—“when they watched news of wars on TV, reports from the Balkans or the West Bank, they would think...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Sadistic Divorce Undeterred by 9/11 | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...make it palatable—if anything, it makes it easier to accept the harm being inflicted upon them and their friends. But such emotional detachment makes the novel read like the screenplay to a mediocre action movie. This tacky quality is disappointing considering the maturity and wit of Kalfus?? overall narrative aesthetic...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Sadistic Divorce Undeterred by 9/11 | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...Kalfus?? envisioning of the American mind, our twisted desire to gawk at the Harrimans’ fights echoes a similar desire to watch the 9/11 footage over and over again. On the day of the attacks, when the smoking towers were glowing in every TV set, two people were deriving the utmost pleasure out of the possibility of each other’s demise. Kalfus suggests that such seething schadenfreude, while repulsive, is inescapably American...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Sadistic Divorce Undeterred by 9/11 | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...allure of Kalfus?? utopia isn’t all that compelling, either. When the Harrimans’ offspring sport their “Death to Terrorists!” t-shirts, we wonder how a post-terror world could ever be anything except terrifying...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Sadistic Divorce Undeterred by 9/11 | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

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