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Blind Speed.(Brief article)(Book review)
Blind Speed.
By Josh Barkan.
May 2008. 304p. Northwestern Univ., $21.95 (9780810124936).
Sweet, bumbling, and besieged by feelings of cosmic doubt, first-time novelist Barkan's protagonist joins the long line of hapless male protagonists so popular in American fiction and movies. Once a drummer in an almost successful band, he now stands to lose his teaching job at a community college. To make matters worse, Paul is the slacker in a family of vicious overachievers. One brother was killed on 9/11; the other is a famous Harvard-based lawyer now running for Congress. The good news is ...
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