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NORTON PAPERBACK FICTION STEPHEN DOBYNS The Wrestler's Cruel StudyWrestling, kidnapping, subplots from the Brothers Grimm, and a young man's search for his missing fiancee are only some of the elements of Stephen Dobyns's dazzling new novel. Fun and puns mingle with daring make-believe. Larger-than-life characters play out the crucial human questions: How do we live? How do we handle our demons?"I was reading this book on the treadmill at the YMCA and got laughing so hard at the three wrestling brothers (Prime Rib, Prime Rate, and Prime Time) that I had to get off. Dobyns writes wonderfully surreal prose—it's like John Irving, Joseph Heller, and Norman Bates all rolled together. The Wrestlers Cruel Study is top-of-the-line entertainment: prime rib, prime rate, prime time." —Stephen King "Stirs together Nietzschean philosophy, professional wrestling, fairy-tale scenarios and Gnostic speculation to produce what is at once a darkly humorous and gravely unsettling work of imagination." —Sven Birkerts, New York Times Book Review "Unlike any other book any of us will read this year, or next year, or the year after. . . . Dobyns is one of our most original, daring, and gifted writers." —Robert Boswell 1995 / ISBN 0-393-31212-7 / 432 pages / FICTION
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