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The Loop

Condición: Near Fine. The protagonist of Coomer's deliciously quirky and perceptive fourth novel (after A Flatland Fable ) is Lyman, 30, a lovable loner (he has never known his parents) who works nights for the Texas highway department, driving ar ound the Loop that circles Fort Worth. In this dark, endless orbit--a subtl y shifting metaphor for Lyman's own life--he aids stranded motorists, colle cts debris for his trophy collection and buries animals killed by cars. Whe n an aging but spry parrot with a beakful of cryptic sayings barges through the screen door of Lyman's trailer and upsets his routine, Lyman's deeper humanity is oddly stirred. He decides that finding "the owner behind the bi rd . . . would be akin to finding the message behind the universe." To this end he enlists the aid of Fiona, a sexy librarian at the college where he has enrolled in a potpourri of courses from French to furniture repair. Tog ether, they research parrots and try to track the sources of the bird's per plexingly hieratic utterances. The quest turns up surprises, not always the answers Lyman thinks he seeks. Increasingly when he returns to the nocturn al exitless Loop, he sees his beloved highway in a new light as a place of "aridity" and estrangement. Despite a jarringly abrupt switch to Fiona's vi ewpoint late in the narrative, the denouement both heartens and satisfies. Nº de ref. del artículo: RWARE0000003546

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