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“... man. Assaulting the traditional American ideals of masculinity, individualism and patriotism, Randy Roberts and James Olson write, the antiwar movement, women’s groups and cultural critics in the Sixties and Seventies cut themselves off from ‘the rest of the country’. A ‘working-class hero’, ‘John Wayne kept the faith.’ It was not media ...”

“... truck with correspondences, coded texts, analogues, signifiers; he draws breath and plunges in. A randy weatherman spiralling out of control through the opening pages, as the hook for his first novel, In the Kingdom of Air, or the mechanics of a good public hanging convincingly laid out (by the use of words like ‘gutta-percha’) for his second, A Perfect ...”

“... the ribbon in a shopping precinct. Fergie always spoke as if she was the tireless workhorse while Randy Andy was off doing his war hero/playboy thing, lighting up the world with big deals and pathetic gropes. ‘You have to understand what I am dealing with here,’ she told a friend. ‘I’m married to a man who has never been inside a ...”