 CROSS DRESSING - Reviews |
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"...a comic novel propelled by a wild plot..." "A rip-roaring farce of a thriller." "Suspend your disbelief and jump into this twin-switch tale with both feet... Light, quirky, and occasionally irreverent, this is a totally entertaining urban myth." "A deft, funny, caper novel, incorporating...gleefully savage attacks on
the Church, the advertising industry and the charity industry...While
often compared to Carl Hiassen, Fitzhugh is fast creating his own dark
and funny category... Not content to harpoon his satirical targets,
Fitzhugh levels them with assault weapons, then jumps up and down on
their heads... Smart fast, and funny, Fitzhugh is a dangerous man." "There is little that is funny about the society Bill Fitzhugh describes
in his riotously funny novel, Cross Dressing. His is a Los Angeles that
might long for the relative sanity of The Day of the Locust... Fitzhugh
seems to have been born with a gift of laughter along with a sense that
the world is mad. It is not clear that he is fully aware just how
mad...the world he has created seems to the reader. It is clear,
though, that with his third novel Fitzhugh tightens his grip on a
reputation for absurdist black comedy. He sees the world through a
glass, darkly, combining the savagery of Tom Sharpe with the
light-heartedness of Donald E. Westlake -- a neat trick, but then,
neither of them owns a pair of rose-colored glasses, either." ". . .an interesting equation of the advertising business and organized
religion. . .Fitzhugh ably proves his comic wit on the printed page. . ." ©1999-2001, Reduviidae, Inc. - All rights reserved |
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