I’ve found a review of Life is Funny, discussed in my last post, that I wrote back when the book was pubished in 200. It takes quite on different slant on some of the same aspects of the novel:
Life Is Funny is about as shapeless a novel as they come. It has eleven main characters, [...]
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Frank, E.R. Life is Funny. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
This is another example of a series of fairly separate short stories each focalized from a different first-person present point of view and woven together into what announces itself as a novel–although how exactly it becomes one, how it has any actual cohesiveness, is not necessarily [...]
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