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geoffpotter
, May 29, 2007
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Possibly the best novel - and certainly the funniest - to explain what it was like to live in small-town America in the 1950s. The second of four novels in the Reinhart series, which might be the pre-eminent subversive achievement of post-WWII American novelists - starting with Crazy in Berlin in the beginning of the Cold War, Vital Parts which does the remarkable job of making sense of the '60s, and concluding with the delightfully witty and warm Reinhart's Women which is nothing less than a masterwork.
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