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pleasures and big-picture clarity of life elude an overstuffed, overwrought perception of the inner and outer mysteries. The beauty and wonder of it all is that these Great Themes of social existence - whether sounded by a magis-terial, hidebound James, or a postmodern, media-glutted, hyperabsorbent mind such as Bernard's - don't fail to reach us, garbed in styles that change and recapitulate themselves. Happily, there is still room for an enveloping novel like this one - an immersion, a conspiracy of voic-ings, a great and dread canvas that assembles itself from the staring-back abyss of a small blank page - to lead us to the places we have always been, and to help us know them for the first time. 
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EDITOR'S NOTE: To learn more about or purchase a copy of A Spy in the Ruins, go to www.regentpress.net or visit Amazon.com. Matt Damsker has published criticism in the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone and is the author of Marcus Doyle - Night Vision: Intimacies of an Unblinking Eye (2005; Vintageworks). He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 
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