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The Worst Intentions.(Brief article)(Book review)
"Today it's a trip to be Jewish. Lamented, looked after, exalted." So declares Daniel Sonnino, the disgruntled and dissembling narrator of this wickedly scathing debut novel, a coruscating mixture of satire, family epic, Proustian meditation, and erotomaniacal farce. Daniel is hellbent on recording every idiosyncrasy of his wealthy Roman Jewish clan, a tribe of voluptuaries who are "allergic to inner life," their customs summed up as "Twist. Midnight swims. ...
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