Life Begins on FridayA young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. No one knows who he is and everyone has a different theory about how he got there. The stories of the various characters unfold, each closely interwoven with the next, and outlining the features of what ultimately turns out to be the most important and most powerful character of all: the city of Bucharest itself. The novel covers the last 13 days of 1897 and culminates in a

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as well as the models of masculinity handed out to us by Hollywood characters like John Wayne

This might seem to many the kind of thing one 'grows out' of

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all published by Salmon

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or shirts that suddenly 'speak' an elegiac chorus from a clothesline on the Gaza Strip

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