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Mar 14, 2012ranXerox rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A decent collection. If you like Lipsyte or Saunders, you'll probably like this. Personally, I'm about up-to-here with insightful, wise and the ultra-ironisms of American teenagers. Like the other authors noted above, Johnson's characters are chiefly limited to uber-awareness or blithe stupidity and frankly, though these types work in short stories for a limited engagement, I'm booking off. Maybe it was the Philip Roth novel I read recently, but the "yearning detachment" left me cold.