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Sultry, Sexy, and Smart.("Waiting for April")(Book Review)
Waiting for April, by Scott M. Morris (Algonquin, 352 pp., $24.95)
'There's nothing to read," you sometimes hear. All the good literature is in the past, and what we have today is trash or pretension. Well, that's not true. I could give you a list -- if not a terribly long one -- but for now I'll simply alert you to Waiting for April, the second published novel of Scott M. Morris.
His first was The Total View of Taftly (2000), more a novella, a strange and striking tale of the South, featuring what some call "grotesques" -- although this is a term that Morris rejects as . . . well, grotesque. Taftly caused the literary world to stir a little, and, with ...
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