RE: and the winner is ...

Diego said:

> with much enthusiasm. Honestly, Wes Amerigo's eldest
> son's comic timing was to be commended, but in my
> opinion the rest of the story was unsufferably unbelievable
> and self-indulgent.
>
> But then again, perhaps I just didn't get it. Was it a parable
> of America's inherent good qualities, a tale whose meaning
> and immediate effect is denied to non-Americans? Or was
> it an attempt to echo the 'realismo mágico', which we South
> Americans avoid like the plague?

I don't know what it was. Maybe a kind of deus ex machina? A
man (Wes) so driven to the edge of failure that something
mystical happens and saves his hide?

I know that Schickler is an utterly brilliant and irresistable
writer who did one of the loveliest stories I recall from the
last, oh, 20 years, called KISSING IN MANHATTAN. When I saw
this one ("Wes Amerigo") in the NYer, I thought and hoped it
would be related to the KISSING stories. It wasn't, but I
enjoyed it much, nonetheless. Sorry you didn't.

--tim
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