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"Do yourself a favor and read this wise, sensitive book. The figures may bother you with their yearning and encourage you with their nice, corrosive humor. Dylan Hicks understands his music and his writing is just a tune in itself."—Sam Lipsyte"A hilarious, desires-dashed consideration of a marked National personality: the con-man." —Greil MarcusWade Salem is just a journeyman nation artist, drug supplier, and charming aesthete. He's also an elaborate father figure for this book's narrator, whose gloomy youth becomes equally more perplexing and better through Wade's tales, jokes, and classes.