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From: Juan M Martinez <jmm80625@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
Here's a few snippets from reviews of Emily Prager's recently released
novel, which seems to be doing what Pera's _Lo's Diary_ claimed to do:
From Amazon.Com:
Lucky Linderhof, a 12-year-old latter-day Lolita born of the privileged
sperm club, lives in New York with her affectionate but ineffectual
mother, a woman who changes her lovers as quickly as she changes her
designer clothes. Abandoned by her father, Lucky seeks a symbolic replacement among her mother's
boyfriends--but when the piranha lodger Roger Fishbite moves in, she ends
up with a father figure who becomes a lover. Funny and surreal, Roger
Fishbite has the stylistic atmosphere of Angela Carter in Disneyland for
the millennium. Emily Prager's third novel develops into
a satirical, nightmarish adventure, and along the way a hilarious parody
of American consumerism from a child's point of view. As Fishbite
drags Lucky from one seamy motel to another, her prepubescent sexual
fantasies give way to the brittle survival instincts of the
abused child. Prager has modernized Nabokov's original by giving her child
heroine a voice..."
From The London Times:
"It takes a very good writer to translate such creepy stuff into richly
comic story-telling. To quote Nabokov, which Prager slyly does from
time to time, "Beauty plus pity--that is the closest we can get to a
definition of art." Prager comes pretty close."
Cheers,
Juan
-- http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~jmm80625
Here's a few snippets from reviews of Emily Prager's recently released
novel, which seems to be doing what Pera's _Lo's Diary_ claimed to do:
From Amazon.Com:
Lucky Linderhof, a 12-year-old latter-day Lolita born of the privileged
sperm club, lives in New York with her affectionate but ineffectual
mother, a woman who changes her lovers as quickly as she changes her
designer clothes. Abandoned by her father, Lucky seeks a symbolic replacement among her mother's
boyfriends--but when the piranha lodger Roger Fishbite moves in, she ends
up with a father figure who becomes a lover. Funny and surreal, Roger
Fishbite has the stylistic atmosphere of Angela Carter in Disneyland for
the millennium. Emily Prager's third novel develops into
a satirical, nightmarish adventure, and along the way a hilarious parody
of American consumerism from a child's point of view. As Fishbite
drags Lucky from one seamy motel to another, her prepubescent sexual
fantasies give way to the brittle survival instincts of the
abused child. Prager has modernized Nabokov's original by giving her child
heroine a voice..."
From The London Times:
"It takes a very good writer to translate such creepy stuff into richly
comic story-telling. To quote Nabokov, which Prager slyly does from
time to time, "Beauty plus pity--that is the closest we can get to a
definition of art." Prager comes pretty close."
Cheers,
Juan
-- http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~jmm80625