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This time, critics say, Wolfe has included a character the reader can like, rather than the usual cast of unappealing caricatures.
And those wartime Warner Bros. cartoons where Bugs Bunny battles grotesque caricatures of the Japanese--they don't quite hold up.
Critics heap praise on Cuban-born Valdés' second novel: The "rambunctious new novel is an appetizingly rich stew, full of the varied flavors of Latin culture … sumptuous …exuberantly translated" (Anderson Tepper, the New York Times Book Review ). Spanning 50 years in the life of a country girl who moves to Havana, the book is "a messy, passionate indictment of Fidel Castro's Cuba, packed with grotesque caricatures, implausible crises and generous dollops of magic realism" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). (Read the first chapter here, courtesy of the New York Times .)
Also in the New Republic , Robert Boyers offers some unwonted negative words for Philip Roth's American Pastoral, saying the book caricatures 1960s radicalism.
Compare these larky turns to the robotic caricatures in Nora Ephron's 1998 You've Got Mail --it's the difference between a director who thinks she has it all figured out and one who says, "Surprise me, make me laugh."