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The funniest novel you’ve never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . .

Blake Bailey

Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit.
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Articulates Gives Lucidity Max
My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
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Country Father Law Mother School
Indeed, if you’re looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.
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Early Funny Indeed Look Man Nonportentous
The subject matter is ‘relatable,’ as my students like to say. Better still, though, is what you can learn about the craft of writing from this marvelous book. . . .
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Better Learn Look Marvelous Still
Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.
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Insisted Personal Room Smartest Touching
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.
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Cities City Class Ethos Middle Oklahoma Upper
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography,
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Giving Men Touching
The funniest novel you’ve never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . .
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Book Especially Men Sophisticated Writing

The funniest novel you’ve never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . .

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The funniest novel you’ve never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . .

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