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Under The Crucifix
Reviews
"The
world seems poised to go nuts over Laurie Foos' Bingo
Under The Crucifix...subtle and hilarious, without
being cynical or cruel."
--The Rake
"A
voice crying in the wilderness, demanding attention.
Metaphor taken to the Nth degree, more real than real:
funny, bitter, exhilarating, subversive, gloriously
readable: Laurie Foos."
- Fay Weldon
"Laurie
Foos is both fearless and very funny. In her latest
novel, she tackles the absurd outer limits of human
behaviour without batting an eyelash or cracking a smile-daring
readers to do the same."
-Alan Brown
"Foos
takes the hidden threads of the id and the surface ego
of our American culture and spins a moden fable of what
happens when we begin to understand that even if we
can't redo our pasts, we can live with them."
Alison McGhee
Foos
intertwines the stories of two families in crisis, one
over the loss of a baby, the other over its arrival.
Doll-maker Chloe's 36-year-old brother, Irv, a comic-book
store employee obsessed with Spiderman, literally regresses
to infancy as his wife's own due date approaches. Nearby,
a homecoming queen faces prison for giving birth in
the locker room at halftime and leaving behind the infant,
who later disappears, to accept her crown. At the news
of Irv's "rebirth," Chloe and her husband,
nathan, rush to her parents' home to help will Irv back
into adulthood. Meanwhile, Chloe follows homecoming
queen Darlene's story with interest and is approached
by Darlene's family, who wishes to have a doll made
in the baby's likeness. In the wrong hands, such story
lines would surely flop, but Foos makes the over-the-top
plot work. The themes she addresses are not overshadowed
by the fantasy, a credit to the author's ability to
balance the hyperbolic events with subtle, witty prose.
- Booklist
"The
combination of humor and heart."
- Publishers Weekly
"Foos
exhibits superb control of characters...the novel offers
an unflinching look at life, comfortable or not with
equal candor."
- The Fulton Sun
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