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Orphans with tics and dwarfs without lips or teeth ( Jack Maggs and The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith ), 10-year-old parricides and sexually abused teen-agers ( Illywhacker and The Tax Inspector )--Carey documents their stories in exhaustive, loving detail.
Among the true deviants, the titles that are neither immediately nor even sometimes ever really meaningful (although they may become so during the reading of the book), are the mini-minefields of such as Lisa Alther's Kinflicks (1976), Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast (1950), and Peter Carey's Illywhacker (1985).