BE -- "death wish for the planet" why the internet?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 03.03.2016 um 04:48 schrieb Joseph Tracy:
> I  question the Chabon take that this book is all about the endurance
> of family. What I see is family and decency in the last outpost of
> retreat before the succsexy-death-wish- one finds lurking behind
> doors, on rooftops, in the Ice-see basement, following the numbers,
> falling from the sky and anyplace else one isn’t supposed to look.
> Maxine does look( as many real citizens did) and must shut her mouth
> because the society provides no safety for  whistleblowers.

A political, not to say a deep-political reading, of BE has 
unfortunately been largely absent from the discussion and, as far as I 
can tell, most of the reviews. Probably because of a fear to enter 
"truther"-territory.
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