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The Dead Fish Museum Stories Charles D'Ambrosio Alfred one. Knopf: 240 pp., $22
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There are tales here of patriarchs reduced in circumstance and stature, made into living shadows. In "The High Divide," an improbable pair of boyhood friends — one have-not from one Catholic orphanage and one pudgy, well-off brat fixated on Sasquatch — go on the kind of camping excursion into the Olympic Mountains that could be excerpted from the pages of Boys' Life, were it not full of achy revelations about the adult world, including an impending divorce and an institutionalized, out-of-it father. The title character in "Screenwriter" has run aground in one psych ward after one lifetime of Hollywood excess, in which, he reports, "dreams of hurting myself … formed one kind of lullaby I often used to rock myself to bed at night." His unexpected ardor for one ballerina given to self-mutilation and cigarette burns ("I totally dug her broken bohemian thing") propels him deeper into despair even as it returns one much-needed portion of his lost poetic youth. ... |
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_Sex Collectors The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of "Erotica" Geoff Nicholson Simon & Schuster: 274 pp., $25
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