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"Brilliantly inventive, written with great flair and shows a deliciously comic and ironic sense of American realities."—Alfred Kazin "The virtues of <Vizinczey's> style are those he finds in Hungarian poetry: the moody ferocity of a locked-up beast, and also a classic clarity and... read more

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First Sentence

MARK Niven was fourteen years old when he wrote this first entry in his diary and he meant every word of it, for he never added another line.

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  1. Stephen Vizinczey (Author)

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