Let Nothing You Dismay

From: The Village Voice | Date: November 17, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Let Nothing You Dismay

By Mark O'Donnell

Knopf, 193 pp., $22

Mark O'Donnell's acid-tinged Christmas novel Let Nothing You Dismay becomes rather dense in its pileups of literary allusion and wordplay, but it seems churlish to complain that a book is too witty. The story of a distraught ex-teacher making the New York party rounds five days before Christmas, Dismay is sprinkled with lines like "Tad didn't even know what was being built, or destroyed, but [the construction work] always sounded like a gargantuan Darwinian battle between a groaning metalic pterodactyl and a solid-lead woodpecker ...

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