Dec 20, 2009
Robert Druff, also called Bob and Bobbo, the city commissioner of streets. At the age of fifty-eight, wearing his ill-fitting clothes and suffering from heart disease, a collapsed lung, and poor circulation, Druff finds himself “on the downhill side of destiny.” He swallows Valium to calm himself and chews coca leaves to create a sense of “restored obsession,” the antidote to what he otherwise experiences as a vaguely defined loss of force (a strange malady given that Druff never had much force to lose). Alternately overbearing and self-deprecating,...
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