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Defends what Wood calls "secular comedy"-human, tragicomic, forgiving, bound up with the very origins of the novel -against the narrower "religious comedy" of satire and farce, which is corrective, punitive, and theatrical. [publisher web site].
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2005Picador · 336 pages · 9780312424602
- Other · English · 2004Jonathan Cape · 312 pages · 9780224064507
- Other · English · 2004Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 320 pages · 9780374177379
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