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What makes this book work so well is that for all of Dwight's failings — perhaps because of them — we're squarely on his team.
"Every moment of every day [I] spent thinking, 'How do I make this book work?' Nothing else was important enough to overcome that".
Yet Hawkes manages to make this book work; he pulls you in so thoroughly that even the patches of inauthentic language seem convincing.
"What you have to feel is that nothing's going to stop you devoting every minute of available time to making this book work," says Prosser. "And you have to have that - it's not enough to say, 'Yeah, it's a good book, I think it's a good market, let's put a good cover on it' - that's not enough.
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On that level this book works.
This book works brilliantly in two ways.
This book works on you in less tangible ways.
Much of this book works; a significant amount doesn't; none of it is dull.
Yu Hua writes with humor and anger, and, unlike much of the zeitgeist writing that describes and defines this moment in China, this book works in English extremely well.
As Michelle Dean wrote at Slate, To simply call them banal and stop there ignores (or misunderstands) the strange way this book works.
This book works like a prism, regarding the same people and events from different perspectives until they are finally, deeply understood.
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