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If the Gruffalo, with its warts, bad teeth and jaundiced eyes, has seemed inescapable recently, then it is with good reason.
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One can always retrospectively interpret artistic unease as a harbinger of coming disaster, yet at times in the past the signs have seemed inescapable.
Indeed, as Mr. Ruiz gazed out on the quiet, well-ordered grounds of his Dresden factory and reminisced excitedly about his first visit to China in the 1980's, the future of the chip industry seemed inescapable.
In its wake came further recordings, world tours, solo albums and, for a while, this cluster of Cubans seemed inescapable – the distinctive strains of Chan Chan, Dos Gardenias and Candela winding their way around restaurant tables, bar stools and dinner parties the world over.
Her book is valuable, though, as a collection of carefully drawn portraits of people who got their start working at the bottom rung of the American economy — in a lousy job, in a lousy neighborhood, at the tail end of a recession — and in many cases managed to escape a situation that seemed inescapable.
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