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For all the chaos of which he seems singularly capable, the ex-boyfriend remains a strangely underrepresented character in literature. We might have Gatsby, Baldwinâs Giovanni, any number of Emma Bovaryâs paramours (if they qualify), but I can rattle off twice as many charismatic fictional cats, and almost as many pigs.
But along comes Brontez Purnell with his new â novel, is it? Linked stories? Letâs settle on
hurricane. This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense.