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    "annotation": "A respected magazine editor/founder and onetime spokesman for Generation X offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly tradition-shattering memoir that discusses the deaths of his parents from cancer, his raising of his younger brother, and more. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.",
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