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Sayonara, Gangsters - Takahashi Genichiro |
 | | "Sayonara, Gangsters, a thrillingly unhinged perpetual-motion machine full of absurd sex and violence, greased with the awesome confidence of a writer so committed to thumbing his nose at convention that he discovers caverns of wonder deep within said schnozz. |
 | | Sayonara, Gangsters opens with the promise of a hard-boiled dystopia, as summarized in the first sentence, a newspaper headline that proclaims: "One After Another, Like Bowling Pins, U.S.Presidents Are Toppled by GANGSTERS". |
 | | The fascination with literature and what it can do is evident throughout the book, and from poetry-quotes to Sayonara, Gangsters' attempt to buy a collection of Thomas Mann stories (complicated by the fact that: "The writer Thomas Mann had never existed in the first place") there are clever literary references, cleverly used, throughout the text. |
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