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From one of America#8217;s most acclaimed literary figures (#8220;an important as well as brilliant novelist#8221;#8212; The New York Times Book Review ) a major new novel that hilariously takes the pulse of our times. The unforgettable voyager of this dark comic journey is I. B. #8220;Berl#8221; Pickett, M.D., the die of whose uncharmed life was probably cast as soon as his mother got the bright idea to name him after Irving Berlin. The boyhood insults to any chance of normalcy piled on apace thereafter: the traumatizing, spasmodic spectacle of Pentecostalist Sunday worship; the socially inhibitory accompaniment of his parents on their itinerant rug-shampooing business; the undue technical advancement and emotional retardation that ensued from his erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. What would have become of this soul had he not gone to medical school, thanks to the surrogate parenting of a local physician and solitary bird hunter? But there is meaning to life beyond professional accreditation, even in the noblest of callings. Berl#8217;s been on a mission to find it these past few years, though with scant equipment or basis for hope. Hard to say (for the moment anyway) wh

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Author

Guane, Thomas, Mc

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400075225

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction