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The perfect order of things

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"By turns comic and moving, [the author] revisits the terrible hurt of a first love, a friend's bizarre dissembling, an island paradise turned strangely grotesque. From a life shaped by Tolstoy, the Beatles, the cult of celebrity, the delusion of …

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"By turns comic and moving, [the author] revisits the terrible hurt of a first love, a friend's bizarre dissembling, an island paradise turned strangely grotesque. From a life shaped by Tolstoy, the Beatles, the cult of celebrity, the delusion of drugs, and the vagaries of the literary life, [this novel] presents a dazzling cavalcade of stories that punctuate a life passionately lived and loved"--Jacket.

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""By turns comic and moving, [the author] revisits the terrible hurt of a first love, a friend's bizarre dissembling, an island paradise turned strangely grotesque. From a life shaped by …"

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