Subtle Bodies - Outside of a Dog

Paperback, 241 pages

Published June 3, 2014 by Vintage.

ISBN:: 978-1-4000-7713-7

When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of "superior sensibility" dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his luxe estate high in the Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing.

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Jim Brown reviewed Subtle bodies by Norman Rush

Funny and Bleak

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Rush is a very funny writer, and he does a great job of portraying a group of Hudson Valley elites in the shadow of George W. Bush's march to war. The ending is disheartening but feels true...maybe too true.