Christopher: a Tale of Seduction.* Allison Burnett * Broadway Books * $13.95 We've seen clever outcasts in fiction before, but they're seldom as amusing as B.K. Troop. Forlorn, dumpy (Documentation User's MalPractice + Y) An award from InfoWorld magazine for the worst online documentation. See RTFM. B.K. has fallen for his hetero hetero prefix, Latin, different neighbor, Christopher, and--in a voice that's part Capote, part Patrick Dennis--details his droll droll adj. droll·er, droll·est Amusingly odd or whimsically comical. n. Archaic A buffoon. [French drôle, buffoon, droll, from Old French drolle plan to bag the guy. A delightful debut novel. |
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