Take It or Leave It
by Raymond Federman
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As told, or rather retold second-hand, by the narrator, Take It or Leave It relates the hilarious and amorous adventures of a young Frenchman who has been drafted into the U.S. Army and is being shipped Overseas to fight in Korea. The obsessed narrator retells, as best as he can, what the young man supposedly told him as they sat under a tree. He recounts how the young man escaped German persecution during World War Two, how he came to America and struggled to survive before joining the show more ""rah rah spitshine"" 82nd Airborne Division, and how, because of a ""typical Army goof,"" he mu show lessTags
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well this book took a long time to read. not that it is hard to read, at least in a conventional way. well, this book isn't conventional in a lot of ways. which is probably it's main strength. that and the avoidance of telling his story...not the main one, of course, but the one about his family (x-x-x-x)
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Raymond Federman retired in 1999 as Melodia E. Jones Chair of Literature at SUNY-Buffalo.
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