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Enter the world of perfect, passionless yuppies: Roger and Victoria see the newest movies, keep their diaries on personal computers, dine at the trendiest restaurants. Into their perfection roars Roger's brother. A leftover from the sixties, he is everything they despise - unpredictable, sloppy, emotional. "How Old Was Lolita?" shows what happens when the real thing intrudes on trivial pursuits. This group of contemporary characters insist - in spite of an adulterous affair, a sex change operation and a suicide - on putting their image before reality. Alan Saperstein's first novel, "Mom Kills Kids and Self" won the Hemingway Prize for best First Fiction.
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Saperstein's narrator, Roger, describes his peer group as "the first generation that thinks of itself as the future rather than of its children as the future." Roger, his wife Victoria, and their friends comfortably share such common interests as hot tubbing and trivia (hence the titleshe was 12), until Roger's brother, a Sixties hippie, moves in and has an affair with Victoria. Ill equipped to handle such a crisis, Roger pours out his heart on computer disk; other problems surface in the group, making it a microcosm of all that is confusing in the Eighties. Saperstein is a talented writer whose book starts off clever and funny, but the switch to "serious novel with a message" is abrupt and heavy-handed. Not essential, but interesting. Mary K. Prokop, CEL Regional Lib., Savannah, Ga.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 074750184X
- ISBN 13 9780747501848
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