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BRIEFLY NOTED.(Kornwolf, Tristan Egolf's new novel)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 27-FEB-06
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COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

Kornwolf, by Tristan Egolf (Black Cat; $14). In the third novel by Egolf, who took his own life last year, a rough beast is slouching through the hills of rural Pennsylvania, with glowing eyes, a pompadour, and a strong resemblance to Richard Nixon. This is good news for Owen Brynmor, a reporter who has recently returned to his hated home town, which he recalls as a soulless place where public schooling was "a daily incentive to go on a shooting spree." He gleefully concocts a shaggy-werewolf story...

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