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...novel's many unhinged moments, a typically bizarre collection of Crews characters gather in a Florida swamp for the late-night cremation of Henry Leemer. As her father burns on the pyre, Sarah Leemer gives saccharine | assurances to her lover, Pete Butcher, the angry-young-man hero; Sarah does indeed want a "houseful of little ones." When the ashes cool, the widow Gertrude Leemer, still recovering from a double mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga...
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