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Skvorecky has written a multi-layered and highly readable story centering around the coming of age of his fictional alter ego, Danny Smiricky. The plot interweaves the youthful Danny chasing girls and dealing with Nazi occupation with the adult Danny's encounters in the Canadian Czech expatriate community, teaching literature in university to students the age he was during the war. The authors and novels the adult Danny teaches provide a framework for the book as a whole, and this structure gives the story a depth and resonance a simpler narrative might lack. As always, Skvorecky is a hilarious and moving story teller as well.
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Canada
1984
Totem Press
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