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You can’t be a little bit pregnant, as the saying goes, but you can be a little bit ironic. There are countless points along the axis of irony, a continuum of violence ranging from nudge to cudgel. In the sullen teenager’s blunt force sarcasm — “ Great idea, Dad” — the tone obliterates and reverses the expressed sentiment. This is a kind of virulent and parasitic irony, which feasts on its host statement for effect. Far down the axis is Jane Austen’s famous opening to “Pride and Prejudice”: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Here the tone and proclamation live symbiotically. Austen is pointedly teasing the received wisdom of people like Mrs.

Bennet, but her milder irony doesn’t choke the truth out of the declaration about rich bachelors. Irony can preserve as well as destroy. In fact, the plot of Austen’s novel serves to qualify, rather than undermine, its grand initial claim. Hanzipen Sc Regular. In nine works of fiction over the past 20 years or so, Tom Perrotta has made his living being a little bit ironic. Perrotta is often called a satirist, but he’s no Juvenalian slasher. He would just as soon uphold as tear down. His characters tend to be drawn from the archetypes of suburbia, but he regards them with a gentle respect and affection.

They walk and talk in the service of the novels’ thematic preoccupations but they are not the victims of derision or authorial assault. Like a fencer, Perrotta aims to probe his target, not draw blood. Fletcher,” Perrotta’s seventh novel and first since 2011’s “The Leftovers,” operates and succeeds in ways that will be pleasingly familiar to his admirers. It uses a fecund premise, a large cast of recognizable characters, a rotating point of view, a propulsive plot, a humane vision and clean, non-ostentatious (if occasionally uninspired) prose to explore a fraught cultural topic. There be dragons, yes, but decency mitigates the danger.