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"We set fire to all mattress."

September 15, 2008 Written by admin

Fortunately, the headline’s not a typo. It’s a snippet of dialogue from the first pages of A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz’s sprawling, hilarious debut novel from Speigel & Grau, that sent me into a string of audible laughter.  The book has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as announced early last week, which comes […]

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