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Wolff spent many months cultivating Trumpites andstole away with the goods in broad daylight.
Here too he tracks the lifelong consequences of youthful sins, but this time with a longer lens.
(Never has so much pain and suspense sprung from a BB-gun attack.)
When Patrick sees Matthew again years later, life begins to unravel once more.
He died last May, at 67, before the publication of this second batch.
The inventively fragmented title story drives home that wistful theme.
But Johnson himself didnt burn out or fade away; he died in his prime.
And for extra credit, Lee evocatively depicts the 90s gentrification of the Lower East Side.
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