Word: simulacrum
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...such stars when, finally, the team steps onstage in Vegas to a melange of light and laughter: "This is love, my friends, and the hell with the rest." Novelist Carpenter knows better; the comedians' implicit longing for normality and humanity proves that. But Carpenter also knows that the simulacrum of love with which his comics are re warded is more than most people, leading their ad hoc, late 20th century lives, ever get. There is bite here, but no bitterness. The overall, and lasting, effect makes A Couple of Comedians an unusually literate and oddly touching novel about performers...