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| | Excessive Candour |
 | | Down here in big fl booming Trujillo and Other Stories, all 682 big pages of it, we find ourselves in a world of hugenesses and moral anguish, of almost unendurable heterosexual stress and passion, assault and battery, the big booming voice of the author thumping tubs and thaumaturgies, as ever before. |
 | | The five stories that make up the second half of the book are set in and around Trujillo, Honduras, which is a real place; of the remainder, one is set in post-9/11 Manhattan; one in Iraq; one in Moscow; one in Florida, in the No Man's Land between Daytona Beach and Disney World; and one |
 | | As a whole, the assembly of tales put together as Trujillo may be too unremitting in the conveyance of its message; the reader may fairly long to encounter, in its 700 pages, just one protagonist able to keep his head above waterwater that is nothing but water, no portal need apply to suck us down. |
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