With a title like this, can the book possibly disappoint?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
One wonders if an author clever enough to come up with a title as witty and intelligent as Lulu Incognito could ever fail to produce a masterpiece. The answer so far? No. Kennedy chooses his elegant yet familiar words so carefully, he might well be the Martha Stewart of literary writers. Kennedy, while clearly aspring to grand literary gestures, never truly manages to leave behind his pedestrain persona, and so manages to create works that read like collaborations between John Waters and Barbara Kingsolver.Tacky? Yes. Faux-intellectual? Certainy. Camp? Oh, without a doubt.Yet, somehow Kennedy's numerous and painful failings as a writer always seem to mesh, like the tuneless voices of talentless folk singers, into a flawed dissonance that amuses if not inspires.Buy this book. It's a great laugh and a reliable cure for constipation.
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