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Nothing is as horrifying as fishing corpses from the Seine as they drift with the current on the way to better days in another universe. Mistreated and misunderstood kids, girls knocked up and abandoned, the unemployed and maladapted, the nutcases and the obsessed—all those beloved character-types of popular novels whose contemplation attracts rubbernecking readers like so many scatophagic insects