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Somewhere inside this terribly overwritten novel about a runaway Vietnamese-American adolescent is an affecting sketch struggling to breathe free. Tony Hatcher (born Vo Dihn Thanh) lives in New Jersey with his emotionally distant self-absorbed ex-GI father, and is torn between his rootless present and memories of a boyhood in Saigon where his mother, a prostitute, abandoned him. Running away from home at 16, Tony winds up in New York City, fending for himself in a nightmarish world of crime, drugs, whores and panhandlers. He becomes friends with an alcoholic Vietnam War vet, but a knife-wielding, smooth-talking hustler spells trouble. When Tony's father plasters Port Authority bus terminal with missing-person posters, we know some form of confrontation is in store, but the prolix first-person voice that Butler ( The Alleys of Eden ) assigns to narrator Tony fails to build momentum and never fully convinces.
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"Immerses us in the cultural dislocation of our time . . . in a voice that is marvelously convincing . . . Readers of The Deuce will have the distinct pleasure of watching a fine novelist as he grapples with his great subject. "-Scott Spencer, The New York Times Book Review

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  • PublisherSimon & Schuster
  • Publication date1989
  • ISBN 10 067167093X
  • ISBN 13 9780671670931
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages303
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