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|author=Sam Savage

|reviewer=John Lloyd

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|borrow=Yes

|pages=256

|publisher= Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American history, he is forced through a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not like, for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spirit.

For a more nicely sustained look at an unreliable narrator in recent American history, you might struggle to best [[Indignation by Philip Roth]].

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