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Ben McDonald Coltvet
Reviewed by Ben McDonald Coltvet, a writer and editor living in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
In a 1995 Simpsons episode "Bart vs. Australia" the mischievous Bart Simpson gravely offends the Australians and is forced to travel Down Under with his family to formally apologize....
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie
Vladamir Nabokov once noted that "life not unfrequently imitates the French novelists." Dai Sijie applies this dictum to the unlikeliest of settings: 1970s China....
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