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Allen brings the same lacerating self-hatred to his protagonist here, but with no new wisdom; forced to explain himself, Lee can only stammer incoherently.
Critics say it "respects the audience's intelligence" with well-drawn characters and a "healthy cynicism" about lawyering (Caryn James, the New York Times ). But it also uses unfunny gimmicks, particularly a running gag of dramatizing, on-screen, the protagonist's fantasies.
The very title of the work is tinged with regret, since its protagonist is presented to us not as lighthearted Clarissa but as the older Dalloway's somewhat shrinking, sickly missus.
And he doesn't begin to get inside his impotent male protagonist's head.
"Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...