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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Courageous and Powerful Offering,
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This review is from: How to Cope with Suburban Stress (Hardcover)
The devil has come to Fairchester, an upper-income enclave of Americana, where crime consists of a bat-wielding malefactor who goes about knocking post office boxes off-kilter. The devil takes the guise of Ted Sacks, a pedophile who visits on-line chat rooms to swap notes with similarly inclined monsters and rigs up his bathroom as a personal pleasure palace...should he ever actually work up the nerve to lure a child into his lair. At the same time Ted is embarking on his flights of sexual fantasy, Michael Eisler is trying to cope with a different kind of suburban stress, the impending failure of his marriage and the toll that is taking on his young son, Alex. Mr. Galef expertly interweaves the two storylines--we know a collision is imminent and that Alex will be involved in some way. The tension ratchets up higher and higher and the author refuses to avert his eyes from what must happen, without exploiting (soiling) the reader. Give Mr. Galef credit for a book of remarkable courage and integrity. It's strong stuff, especially for parents, but a novel of skill, poise, frankness and maturity.
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How to Cope with Suburban Stress by David Galef (Hardcover - Aug. 2006)
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