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...journey, Helprin, 36, strains for comparisons to his 19th century master. The names of characters could have been culled from the pages of The Pickwick Papers: the Rev. Mootfowl, Pearly Soames, Rupert Binky, Daythril Moobcot, Hardesty Marratta, Jesse Honey. The portraits of the huddled poor, the satirically named newspapers (the Evening Ghost, the Morning Whale) all echo Dickens' works. But it is Oliver without a Twist, Chuzzle minus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sophomore Slump | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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