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Lying Awake: A Novel (review)

Lying Awake: A Novel (review) apparently innocent man by Taylor's adolescent soldiers. "An Anarchist's failure." But figures such as former Green Beret Colonel Bo Gritz, whose Guide to SomaUa" examines simUarly violent SomaU poUtical unrest and describes the rural SomaU people as they trek across the desert in smaU, armed groups doing what they can to tal city of Mogadishu is controUed almost universaUy considered dangerous and maniacal, give him pause. Another striking essay, "Three Deserts," demonstrates the book's violent, antigovernment rhetoric is avoid each other. The war-torn capiby General Aidid, who promises of displaced people, development and elections," celebrated Western overaU accomplishment by successfuUy juxtaposing Johnson's surreal experiences in post-Soviet Kabul, the American Southwest and Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War's commencement. "security, rehabiUtation, resettlement materialize in a land where people own" without Western intervention. ideals that Johnson suggests wiU not "got along for centuries on their Johnson's most impressive achievement in Seek is his demonstration that the sort of otherworldliness characteristic of the civil wars of Third Johnson's versatility as a writer. These are essays that rely on some of the central techniques of good fiction while remaining grounded in the Seek provides arresting evidence of realities of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

Lying Awake: A Novel (review)

Varallo, Anthony E.
The Missouri Review , Volume 24 (2) – Oct 5, 2001
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apparently innocent man by Taylor's adolescent soldiers. "An Anarchist's failure." But figures such as former Green Beret Colonel Bo Gritz, whose Guide to SomaUa" examines simUarly violent SomaU poUtical unrest and describes the rural SomaU people as they trek across the desert in smaU, armed groups doing what they can to tal city of Mogadishu is controUed almost universaUy considered dangerous and maniacal, give him pause. Another striking essay, "Three Deserts," demonstrates the book's violent, antigovernment rhetoric is avoid each other. The war-torn capiby General Aidid, who promises of displaced people, development and elections," celebrated Western overaU accomplishment by successfuUy juxtaposing Johnson's surreal experiences in post-Soviet Kabul, the American Southwest and Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War's commencement. "security, rehabiUtation, resettlement materialize in a land where people own" without Western intervention. ideals that Johnson suggests wiU not "got along for centuries on their Johnson's most impressive achievement in Seek is his demonstration that the sort of otherworldliness characteristic of the civil wars of Third Johnson's versatility as a writer. These are essays that rely on some of the central techniques of good fiction while remaining grounded in the Seek provides arresting evidence of realities of

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The Missouri Review – University of Missouri

Published: Oct 5, 2001

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