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 | | In his ability to countenance the character of Josef Pronek as a self-styled, metonymic Nowhere Man, is a narrative motivation to probe, in the full sway of the authors powers, an enchantment with American belonging, pure and simple. |
 | | Equally present, in Nowhere Mans closing chapter, is a lurid accounting of Proneks life-sufferings, vulgar pleasures, "official" machinations and self-glorifying quests as spy, political intriguer, drug smuggler. |
 | | In a key scene, Pronek and girlfriend Rachel are awakened in the middle of the night by scraping noises in the hall outside their bedroom to find a mouse. |
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