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protagonist also works as a fact-checker, as did McInerney during his time also, at The New Yorker. From this, its readers can thus far conclude that the novella is reasoned to be heavily autobiographical.
�My feet bare against the tar which is soft from the summer heat, the slight breeze that runs across your entire body. . . the breezes always seem to hit strongest on my crotch, and you feel an incredible power being naked under a dome of stars while a giant city is dressed and dodging cars all around you five flights down. I guess it has to do with the incredible sexiness of the whole thing, the idea that someone else might pop through the roof door and snag you any second, the possibility of being caught in a situation where there is no possibility of explaining yourself is what the real turn on. . . or that someone is or might be spying on you all the while without a trace.� (pg 36). The protagonist is a very young boy living in the heart of the fantastic city ...

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