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(More customer reviews)In order to appreciate this book, you have to get over the idea that it's either "about" the present or the past. It's what Sharpe calls an "ahistorical fantasia": he puts not only the Jamestown story but bits of Shakespeare, blackface minstrelsy, Disney's Pocahontas, sketch comedy routines, Wallace Stevens poems, a bunch of flatulence jokes, and other bits of detritus into a blender and then serves up the mix in a weird, "Children of Men"-like futuristic context. It's WAY over the top -- but if you like to laugh while your head is spinning around, this may be the one for you.
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