![]() Pamela Trowel, the book's narrator, is a hapless New York ingenue who is enjoying one of the city's classic youth experiences: living in a crummy basement apartment while working a dead-end job at a magazine that puts her in contact with people more wealthy and powerful than she can ever hope to be. But with its pacing more elephantine than aerodynamic, the book cries out for firm editorial hands to whittle it down to half its present length - and trim some of Janowitz's rampant language abuse while they're at it. Meandering where it should be pithy, endlessly gabbling where it should be serving up a deft one-liner, it's a sort of 1990s update of Preston Sturges territory ("Easy Living" comes to mind). ![]() There's a daft humor in it, but you have to wade through a lot of dreck to get to it. That's the trouble with the new novel from Tama Janowitz (Slaves of New York, A Cannibal in Manhattan), which aspires to take its place in a venerable screwball tradition, but is so bloated and sloppy that it winds up being more of a struggle than a breeze to read. Take away the timing, and what you're left with is an idea for a comedy rather than the item itself. ![]() THE MALE CROSS-DRESSER SUPPORT GROUP By Tama Janowitz Crown.
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