![]() ![]() How else to explain his overwrought response to the characters who change his life in just three months-a transformation that begins with a sexually-charged glance across the library stacks. Every bit the ""devout narcissist"" and terminal adolescent his father accuses him of being, Art the econ major also has a poet's sensibility. ![]() Early on in this often precious narrative, Art announces to his mob-accountant dad, ""I anticipate a coming season of dilated time and of women all in disarray,"" and thereby prepares the reader as well for his distended musings on his thrill-packed summer vacation. ![]() grad, discovers all sorts of nasty troths (and some ""mysteries"") about life, love, and the city of Pittsburgh. During one ""dizzy summer""-one ""dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer""-Art Bechstein, a newly minted U. Heavy pre-pub hype (""Motion Picture Rights Sold to Lorimer"") ""Six-Figure Paperback Floor""!) ill serves the modest achievement of this competent first novel about the difficulties of being a mobster's son. ![]()
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