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petercreasey · 10-01-2010, 01:15 PM

Thomas McMahon
Loving Little Egypt
A Novel
280 pages, 5-1/4 x 8 © 1987
Series: Phoenix Fiction
ISBN: 9780226561134
Paper $18.00
ISBN: 9780226561097 Published October 2003

“McMahon is so much less well known than he deserves to be. His later novels, increasingly wry and exaggerated, bear a family resemblance to those of Kurt Vonnegut and to certain of Saul Bellow’s works. Yet there is an underlying sweetness to McMahon’s writing, a wholehearted engagement with those elements of scientific wonder that most resemble artistic creativity.”—Bookforum
“A slam-bang adventure tale.… As the novel delights in its own power to make the grim amusing and the dour delightful, it leaks its own positiveness onto the reader, lighting the air around him.”—Chicago Tribune

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petercreasey Wizard Posts: 1,147 Karma: 1119516 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Sony: PRS 950 & T1, Kobo: Aura One & Forma	UChicago Free Press - Loving Little Egypt [PDF FORMAT] Thomas McMahon Loving Little Egypt A Novel 280 pages, 5-1/4 x 8 © 1987 Series: Phoenix Fiction ISBN: 9780226561134 Paper $18.00 ISBN: 9780226561097 Published October 2003 “McMahon is so much less well known than he deserves to be. His later novels, increasingly wry and exaggerated, bear a family resemblance to those of Kurt Vonnegut and to certain of Saul Bellow’s works. Yet there is an underlying sweetness to McMahon’s writing, a wholehearted engagement with those elements of scientific wonder that most resemble artistic creativity.”—Bookforum “A slam-bang adventure tale.… As the novel delights in its own power to make the grim amusing and the dour delightful, it leaks its own positiveness onto the reader, lighting the air around him.”—Chicago Tribune UChicago Free Press Last edited by Dr. Drib; 10-04-2010 at 06:51 AM.