W, May 1st, 2001
BOOKS Does a Port Authority street hustler have the keen instincts, the ferocity of will and he thick hide necessary for survival on the barracudainfested high seas of New York society? Not on your life.
But William Narciso Paulinha, the young narrator of Han Ong's intriguing if uneven debut novel, FIXER CHAO (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), does have plan, a patron and a seething case of class resentment that might just put over anyway. His ascent begins one night in a Hell's Kitchen dive when he's approached by a man, a literary loser named Shem, who enlists his aid in an elaborate con. William...
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