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At the center of The Hooligan's Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong quest through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's booklet is in many ways a memoir, additionally it is a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and books, dream and truth, former and present. Autobiographical incidents merge with historic elements, always attaching the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks of the bloodiest time of the 20th hundred years and of the introduction afterward of a worldwide, competitive, and sometimes cynical society. Both a harrowing memoir and an ambitious epic job, The Hooligan's Return achieves a refined internal harmony as nervousness evolves into a sensitive irony and a burlesque illusion. Magnificently written and brilliantly conceived, this is the work of a copy writer with an acute knowledge of the vast human potential for both evil and kindness, compliance and integrity.