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Andrew Kaufman. All My Friends Are Superheroes.(Book Review)

The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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Andrew Kaufman. All My Friends Are Superheroes. Coach House, 2003. 111 pp. Paper: $14.95.

All My Friends Are Superheroes calls itself a novel, but clocking in at a slim 111 pages and with chapters that can look like sketch-comedy riffs, not all readers will recognize it as one. True, some sections do little more than milk the titular conceit, a too-easy excuse for trotting favorite misfits across the narrative stage. And certain scenes do feel rather anemic--not for the writing, which is deft and alive, but for the odd sense that someone decided they should all be bite-sized. In the end, though, Andrew Kaufman's debut work manages to move and surprise, all the more impressive for the narrative constraints he places in his own way. The book centers around Tom, an earnest "regular" who's desperately trying to save his new marriage from a looming crash and burn. His new bride, the Perfectionist, has had her faith in Tom occluded by a spiteful ex ...

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