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I’ve read all 5 NBA finalists, and the Kalfus is the last one I would think of when it comes to name a winner.
Ken Kalfus: Affront to Asceticism : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006
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Laura Miller suggested in her review that Kalfus, an endlessly ingenious writer, is not trying to say something about divorce by likening it to the so-called clash of civilizations.
Saying Something 2010
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I was tempted to conclude that what Kalfus was really saying was that, to the extent his protagonists are representative of the America the hijackers thought they were attacking, they had some justification, given how thoroughly detestable "Joyce" and "Marshall" turn out to be.
Saying Something 2010
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Surely Kalfus doesn't intend for his novel to "mean" things as banal, or as offensive, as these.
Saying Something 2010
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In A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, Kalfus also attempts several episodes of what are clearly meant to be black humor, as when husband Marshall rigs himself up in a suicide jacket, only to have wife Joyce try to help him fix it whan it malfunctions due to his incompetent construction.
Saying Something 2010
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By this measure, then, the novel is indeed "about" the world wrought by 9/11, and Kalfus is indeed trying to "say something," which is that the war in Iraq can be understood as similar to divorce?
Saying Something 2010
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With hindsight, she says her true self only began to emerge in her next relationship, with photographer Jordan Kalfus, 12 years her senior, in New York.
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The bottles of acid were given to Kalfus-Nehushtan to transport in her handbag, but one of the bottles overturned and the acid spilled, burning her leg.
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Kalfus-Nehushtan was sentenced to fifteen years in prison without special treatment, but she managed to break out of the detention camp two years later, two months before the British left Palestine.
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The first action in which Kalfus-Nehushtan took part involved the confiscation of textiles from government warehouses in October 1944.
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