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Last Notes and Other Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
Last Notes and Other Stories TAMAS DOBOZY. Arcade, $23 (192p) ISBN 1-55970-808-5
The 10 first-person stories of Dobozy's debut, remarkable for their psychological and emotional complexity, yearn to make sense of eccentric and opaque behavior, sometimes by engaging in it. The first story, "Into the Ring," centers on a married couple who box each other to release the mutual frustration of their inability to conceive. In the moving and funny "Philip's Killer Hat," the narrator tries to dissuade his off-kilter brother from sending letters to the Thelonious Monk estate …
