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LEAVE BEFORE YOU GO.(Review)(Brief Article)
EMILY PERKINS. HarperCollirzs/Ecco, $23 (304p) ISBN 0-06-019661-0
Twentysomething angst over the opposite sex, career malaise and anxiety regarding overall life direction unite three young New Zealand natives and a mysterious English stranger in Perkins's dry-humored first novel (her collection of stories, Not Her Real Name, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Fiction in Great Britain). Eager to leave London, art school dropout Daniel agrees to help a friend of a friend by trafficking heroin from Thailand to New Zealand. His inexperience and stupidity soon conspire against him and he resorts to two dangerous strategies-lying and stealing-to scrape by. …
