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It was highlighted as a new comic novel that satirizes the pharmaceutical industry with a middleaged protagonist. Maureen Corrigan praised its social satire and humor.
If so, she recommends a new comic novel by Charles Baxter called Blood Test.
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It was highlighted as a new comic novel that satirizes the pharmaceutical industry with a middleaged protagonist. Maureen Corrigan praised its social satire and humor.
If so, she recommends a new comic novel by Charles Baxter called Blood Test.
It's a challenging time for social satire.
Blood Test, a new novel by Charles Baxter, perhaps spans divisions because it draws upon a triedandtrue comic predicament.
The entity is the pharmaceutical industry.
In Blood Test, Baxter invites us to laugh at this allAmerican zaniness and to acknowledge some of the pain that fuels it.