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Beautiful Children.(Brief article)(Book review)
In this ambitious debut novel, set on the seedy streets of Las Vegas, an adolescent boy vanishes, his parents' marriage begins to unravel, a comic-book artist contemplates three-dimensional tattoos, and a stripper seeks refuge in imagining her life as a movie. Skillfully working both forward and backward through time, and interlacing the events leading up to the child's disappearance with its aftereffects, Bock aims at humanizing those ...
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