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 | | Janowitz allows her heroine no mercy, as the girl with the mad, abusive mother, "hideous hippie hair sprouting from her head in various colours, like some terrible mutant dandelion", descends from the fantasy of happiness to the depths of degradation. |
 | | Peyton is afflicted - as Ms Janowitz also seems to be, and no doubt Jane Austen would be were she to have the misfortune to be writing 200 years later - by the horrors of the flesh. |
 | | "She had not even known it was there, and now she watched as the last of it fizzled out of his body like air from a helium balloon." Poor Barry, poor Peyton, his "sexy princess". |
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