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Dog War.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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A Jamaican of Lebanese and Hungarian extraction, Winkler is best known for his satirical novel of Caribbean life "The Lunatic." Here he applies his wicked sensibility to immigrant experience in Florida. Newly widowed, Precious, an upstanding Jamaican with practical ideas and a conversational relationship with Jesus, becomes a maid in a Miami mansion for a ...

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