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The Laughing Monsters is a spy novel by Denis Johnson published in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Laughing Monsters is set largely in the African countries of Sierra Leone, Congo and Uganda in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s, conflicts which Johnson witnessed and reported on as a journalist.
Jan 1, 2014 · The Laughing Monsters is described as a “post-9/11 literary spy thriller,” but that’s like calling Zapped! a highbrow investigation into the limits of scientific experimentation and discovery. It’s more of a lazy buddy spy novel, where none of the spies care much about hiding anything from each other, and mostly drink a lot while half-heartedly pursuing various undefined schemes.
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Nov 4, 2014 · The Laughing Monsters delivers a more commercial, post-9/11 tale of intrigue, deception, romance, and misadventure set in West Africa without losing Johnson's essentially poetic drive . . . With each twist, Johnson deftly ups the stakes while adding to the cavalcade of entrepreneurs, assassins, seers, and smugglers that populate the book, tuning us in to the roiling political realities and ...
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Nov 7, 2014 · “The Laughing Monsters” is a minor work — there’s no rocketing prose or conceptual jumping of lanes. Cheerfully nihilistic, it’s a buddy book dependent for much of its situation on ...
Nov 4, 2014 · The Laughing Monsters delivers a more commercial, post-9/11 tale of intrigue, deception, romance, and misadventure set in West Africa without losing Johnson's essentially poetic drive . . . With each twist, Johnson deftly ups the stakes while adding to the cavalcade of entrepreneurs, assassins, seers, and smugglers that populate the book, tuning us in to the roiling political realities and ...
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The Laughing Monsters: A Novel: Johnson, Denis: 9780374280598: Books - Amazon.ca. Skip to main content.ca. Delivering to Balzac T4B 2T Update ...
The Laughing Monsters is no literary revelation in the Denis Johnson canon, but it is a good and quick read in the style that I enjoy. The LMs is the story of two damaged, but ridiculously puerile men, Roland Nair, the narrator, and Michael Adriko, his nemesis and soul mate.
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- Denis Johnson
