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...they are abustle with larger, if entirely inchoate, ambitions. They have invested John with a real problem -- alcoholism -- and they have plunked the Learys down on a block that is a sort of dumping ground for the damned of the lower middle class. Among their new neighbors are a neo-Nazi, a drug-addict mom who dies of an overdose and someone who keeps a pack of killer Dobermans in the yard next door. For a family teetering on the brink of dysfunction, this environment seems bound to push them over the edge. Sure enough, Dylan, the younger...
...There's always some neo-conservative revisionist running around trying to undermine the presence of people of color," Jones said...
Atrocities dominate the larger scale of events in the book. The Nazis originally trained the dogs that attacked June; their presence evokes all the horrors of World War II. Neo-fascist skinheads savage Bernard when he visits Berlin to see the Wall come down. The novel addresses the depths of hatred and spite to which the world often descends. On a personal scale, the narrator himself is both protected by a benign intuition, which saves him from a scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming...
...kind of perverse bonding. It's up there with huddling with my fellow pajama-clad tower residents in our neo-Seventies cubist JCR after one of our many midnight fire alarms last month...
...novel poses a challenge to Black neo-conservatives--not because there is no role for conservatism in African-American politics, but because such conservatism has thus far succeeded only in addressing a clicheed set of 'problems' within the Black community. Reed offers incisive commentary on white establishments such as the media and publishing which have managed to present only one side of issues like the Los Angeles riots or the debate of Afocentrism. More importantly, Reed questions the manner in which Black conservatives contribute to such practices by constricting their own views to fit the popular mold...