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poignant
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MARILYN STASIO San Antonio Exp-News **** "The pleasures of the Dortmunder series achieve special poignance in Get Real, as the story unfolds in the usual way: assembling the regulars--Dortmunder, Kelp, Stan the Driver and Tiny, who was introduced stealing compact cars by picking them up one at a time and loading them into the back of a moving van--in the grungy back room of the O.
Adding to the poignance of Teena's suffering, Bethie, lying beaten and bruised on the "filthy floor" of the boathouse (23) herself, witnesses her mother being ravished.
Kristan imparts this gradual downward spiral with tremendous assurance, humor and poignance.
 
 
 
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