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From: joff i Category: Books Date: 12 June 2009 Time: 07:11 AM Review: Brilliant title, try asking for it in book shop. Mann! The Indian part is funnier and better, the Venice bit is flat. Perhaps it is easier to find the beauty in mess than write beautifully about the sublime. Probably someone has said exactly that, better. Art people will be amused by the melange of details, mostly from the scorching 2003 biennale, and might skip the second part, which is really a separate novella, they will be missing out because that is when Dyer gets going, and there is LOL slapstick and a wilder ride. Cruising around on vaporetti picking up American gallerists for hot (literally) sex is hard to make anything butt what it sounds. Perhaps that is what he meant.