![]() ![]() “And just like that,” observes Stephen, “when I’m putting my clothes on after the shower, the impatient despairing dwarf inside me squawks, begging for more, coughs and curls up through my chest and out my fingers and ears, and I already begin measuring the time to the next time.” He also conveys the young man’s single-minded obsession powerfully, even poetically. Habash describes his protagonist’s bouts with brio and expertise. “Up in an armpit of the United States” (a fictional town in North Dakota), apparently before cellphones and the internet, Oregsburg college senior Stephen covets a wrestling championship. The chief attribute with which Habash - the deputy reviews editor for Publishers Weekly - endows Stephen is self-absorption. Unfortunately, in this debut novel by Gabe Habash, that’s one of Stephen’s few arresting traits. ![]() “Is Stephen Florida fatuous or just glib?” muses the eponymous narrator of “Stephen Florida,” whose real name, Steven Forster, was changed due to a clerical error. ![]()
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