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Adam Mazmanian (review date 15 March 1996)

SOURCE: Mazmanian, Adam. Review of Greetings from Earth, by Scott Bradfield. Library Journal 121 (15 March 1996): 98.

[In the following review, Mazmanian chronicles Greetings from Earth as disappointing and ineffective, but adds that the volume does contain “a few gems.”]

In this collection of short stories [Greetings from Earth,] Bradfield dilutes the dark satire of his novel Animal Planet with literary aspirations. The result, while often funny, is not as effective. In “Dazzle,” a ennui-plagued dog suffers through psychotherapy and one-sided conversations with less-gifted dogs before going on the lam into the “unfenced world.” A records manager becomes convinced that his vivid hallucinations are real in “The Dream of the Wolf” and drives off his family in pursuit of the truth. A would-be poet keeps an inane journal of his pseudo-intellectual...

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