Embarking on a fresh relationship with local beauty Coco, Elmo slings the ball-and-chain lingo as early as page two. What follows is a jettison dump of even-handed female stereotypes: frigid and fecund, trustworthy and two-faced. In this deliberate littering of one-dimensional woman personas, Elmo adopts a shy, female racing greyhound named Kill Switch, believing he's found a girl he can depend on. Mesmerized by Kill Switch's light bulb eyes, Elmo misses the allegory, as her lamps beam over a landscape of grotesque, incomplete lady characters, exposing the man-child who roams the meadows of this novella. And like so many, he's a chip off the old block.
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