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The surprise is not only how funny Dixon can be but also how unutterably sad... [Dixon] takes a reader's heart and just plain dropkicks it.A" -San Francisco Chronicle   His circular, self-aware prose can be entrancing.A" -New York Times Book Review   Stephen Dixon is one of the great secret masters.  -Jonathan Lethem  "You have to go into a Dixon book the way you'd go into a game of strip poker: ready to end up naked. He gives it to you straight, and means every word. He is the least pretentious living writer." -J. Robert Lennon