Word: trashier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fanny is an even trashier novel than Flying or How to Save Your Own Life (1977), but that's not the most annoying thing about it. With Fanny, Jong backdates her heroine, capitalizing every other word in a futile attempt to satisfy on a literary level. Acclaiming her creation as a "mock-eighteenth-century novel," Jong writes the 490-odd-page story from Fanny's perspective in a brand of English that defies historical classification...