![]() ![]() Not simply with respect to the behavior of her protagonists (who have at least some affinity with the sociopathic misadventures of her earlier antihero in debut novel Tampa), but with respect to the rendering of the reality they occupy. Does the emotional caginess required to treat fellow humans as playthings, in every sense fit to be toyed with, necessarily go hand-in-hand, or, um, protuberance-in-orifice, with spastic, anomalous liaisons? The earnest, young, conscience-ensnared couple of David Foster Wallace’s “Good People,” still as pillars on the riverbank as they debate the possibility of an abortion, are about as far from this novel as humanly imaginable - and yet, like Wallace, or for that matter George Saunders or Nell Zink or even Charlie Kaufman, Nutting has taken here a turn toward the riotously askew. MANIPULATIVE PEOPLE and sexual absurdity do much to color the horizon of Alissa Nutting’s second novel, Made for Love, almost as if there is some kind of correspondence between these two categories of phenomena. ![]()
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