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| | BUTTON MAN by Lyons, Paul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Paul Lyons's third novel is a gritty, disturbing, and wildly comic story of street vendors, loan sharks, and long-shot love. |
 | | It's the hot summer of 1988, Michael Dukakis leads the elder George Bush in the polls, and while the over-arching events of the political conventions are in progress, Hawk and the rest of the "button gang" sell their buttons first to Democrats in Atlanta, then Republicans in New Orleans. |
 | | Button Man is reminiscent, in its unnerving violence and biting wit, of the worlds of Elmore Leonard, Nathaniel West, William Kennedy, and Quentin Tarantino. |
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