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Robert Plunket
Picaresque · Dark comedy
Picaresque books with satire
A wandering outsider can move through social circles that seldom examine themselves. Picaresque satire uses those encounters to find comic targets along the road, letting an opportunist's changing fortunes reveal what different people value and excuse.
4 books
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Audiobook
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Audiobook
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