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| | Amazon.com: The Brothers K: Books: David James Duncan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | If John Irving reimagined The Brothers Karamazov as one of his kooky families and Thomas Pynchon did a rewrite, the result might be something close to this long-awaited second novel by the author of The River Why (LJ 2/15/83). |
 | | The brothers are the Chance boys, sons of Papa Toe, a minor league pitcher whose crushed thumb is replaced by a transplanted toe, and his devout Seventh Day Adventist wife. |
 | | Around halfway through the book, the four brothers (the "K" is an allusion to "The Brothers Karamazov," by Fyodor Dostoyevsky) each go off in search of their own way; Everett becomes a draft-dodger, Peter a philosopher, Kincaid a hippie, and Irwin goes to fight in Vietnam. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/055337849X?v=glance (2748 words) |
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