"Slaughter's book is a novel of linguistic and conceptual richness.
It is at once sensuous, paradoxical, harsh and beautiful, a
beautiful surrender to unpardonable brutality, and an artistic
rendering of it. Slaughter's development of ideas from the raw
material of a rich and varied life, his epigrammatic delivery of
strange wisdom, and his uncompromising fatalism, make this a
challenging and yet rewarding read. The chief character is divided
into three selves: Pee-Pee, Wee, and Ronny. These three persons in
one, although representing different stages of the protagonist's
life, are nevertheless simultaneously existing. Pee-Pee is so-named
because of the attachment that others especially have to his
particular physiological organ, and somewhat because of the
connection of self to its very extension in the world, the
beginning of personhood. Wee is not only the older Pee-Pee, but
also, as the name seems to suggest, a collective identity
comprising not only the character but also all of the book's
characters, as well as the readers of the book, and everyone else
in the world, whatever that may mean. But, as the name suggests,
Wee also leaks. He is unable to prevent anything from penetrating,
and invariably lets everything out. Ronny is the adult Pee-Pee and
Wee, but also a character, who incorporates everything he has
witnessed and that has been done by every other character in the
book. He contains Pee-Pee, Wee, and the thinking and actions of
others, only in somewhat an obdurate way, such that he becomes like
a graveyard filled with the stones commemorating their lives. Yet
he is charged with continuing as the witness who cannot forget." --
Michael Rectenwald, author of The Thief and Other Stories, The Eros
of the Baby Boom Eras, and Breach
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