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"The Greatest Place on Earth": Personal Note: A Work of Absurdity?"The Greatest Place on Earth" is an absurdist allegory: a respected psychology professor is recruited by "The Bureau" to investigate a town whose residents have collectively gone mad. The premise stays simple; the construction does not. Weisman builds the book as a collage. Stylistic invention sits next to direct citations, outlandish humor next to compassion, random dispatches next to historical photographs and faux documents. The method is the

Weisman builds the book as a collage

Written by the late author Persis Gerdes

Meanwhile is the book where Mario carries the instrument

What Is Art

This is the book that carries her own voice rather than her editorial hand

and for the deep sympathy for the human condition both qualities carry

per Hugunin

It follows Like Blood in Water and precedes View of Delft

and for the rare success of a comic novel that is also a tragedy

The form was his own: compressed prose that reaches the scale of a novel through what he called "negative text

and on the nature of genius and madness

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