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Snap Judgement: Books.(The Coma )(The Dog Fighter)(Public Enemies )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Byline: Michael Hastings, Peter Plagens
The Coma by Alex Garland
The story is simple, readable, desolate: Carl, an office worker taking the last train home, gets severely beaten by thugs. So his coma begins, on page seven. He spends the rest of the novel trying to break free from unconsciousness. The more Carl's mind struggles to return to life, the more it tricks him. He dreams he is awake when he is not. He searches his memories for a trigger--a childhood home or a lover--to help him snap out of it but finds only amnesia. "You wake, you die," says our comatose narrator. Garland, author of "The Beach" and the screenplay "28 Days Later," serves up his most accomplished work to date, a poetic riff on the vagaries of memory, trauma and dreams.
--Michael Hastings
The Dog Fighter by Marc Bojanowski
We know many telling details about the narrator in this darkly comic debut novel set in 1940s Mexico: he doesn't like to talk, his mother died when he was 14, he once hung a puppy from a tree and his ...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Plagens, Peter December 22, 2003 700+ words
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...s silicon economy), SF MOMA has probably put itself in a pretty stable long-term position. You might say things have gone from normal back to normal. Peter Plagens is art critic for Newsweek and a frequent contributor to Artforum.
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 2, 2003 700+ words
...PRNewswire/ -- Newsweek.com's new "Arts & Opinions" section debuts online with columns by Newsweek Art Critic Peter Plagens, the novelist Darius James and Eric Banks, the new editor of Book Forum. The new column will include an interactive...
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- Magazine article from: Artforum International Plagens, Peter June 22, 2004 700+ words
IS THE WHITNEY remaking itself--again? When Tom Armstrong left in 1990 after seventeen years at the helm and David A. Ross took over as director, the museum supposedly jettisoned its predilection for artists from blue-chip SoHo galleries in favor of a wide-open, video-empowering, emerging-artists