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This is the first time I read a book where I thought the prose was great but the story was hard to follow. Based on this one book, I feel Thomas Disch is one of the best writers I've read in a while. Unfortunately, the structure of the book is what threw me into general disarray. The book is actually a collection of interrelated short stories about people, particularly the members of one family, who live in the population controlled near future in subsidized housing with the numeric address of 334. It's faintly reminiscent of the interrelatedness of J.D. Salinger's Wise Child stories ("Franny and Zooey", "Seymour", "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters", etc).

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