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![[Satire] A Cutting Satire About Curdled Love in “The War of the Roses” - Chicago Review of Books](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2Fgeneric_3_half.64d0bbed.webp&w=1440&q=75)
Satire · ChicagoIf ostentatious summer weddings and tax cuts for the rich have you feeling nostalgic for the Eighties, you’re in luck. Warren Adler’s The War of the Roses (1981) is set to be republished. With an updated cover and author revisions, this novel continues to delight dark-humored souls. While there is no shortage of romance novels to take to the beach, you might find a cutting satire about curdled love an amusing respite. A cold plunge of a novel, i…Read Article
[Satire] A Cutting Satire About Curdled Love in “The War of the Roses” - Chicago Review of Books

Chicago, IL · ChicagoAlways witty, sometimes surreal, frequently diving beneath mundane surfaces to mysterious and mesmerizing depths, An Oral History of Atlantis, the first collection of Ed Park’s short stories, showcases a master of the form. There’s a delightful variety to the stories here, and while Park’s narrators have a consistently engaging kind of urbane intelligence, the real connecting thread here is the selections’ sharpness, the startling and playful pi…Read Article