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This is very much novel as abstract painting and johnson is very much novelist as abstract painter in that as with don delillos last book the body artist here is a novel that attempts to get to grips with the passage of a human being through the many varied and difficult stages of grieving

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Michael reed is a college professor whose wife and child were killed in an automobile accident four years previously

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Johnson is the kind of writer you champion knowing he isnt to everybodys tastes he is difficult at times and unyielding but that just goes to make for writing that makes demands upon the reader challenging you to interpret what it is you are faced by

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Another treasure from a writer who continues to inject hard comedy into his stories of loss and redemption

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During her story about her name flower recalls events that occurred when she was four years old yet she distinctly remembers that at that time her mother and her sisters helped her plant tulip bulbsthis despite the fact that kali hadnt been born yet

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Also flower talks of celebrating every fourth of july until 93a date beyond the action of the book

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Finally that lonesome parenthesis on top of page 111

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Denis johnson is much too good a writer to be allowed into print in this shoddy fashion