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As much as I enjoy Willeford's source novel (which reads a good bit as if Thomas Pynchon had written a first-person hard-boiled novel as a side project after THE CRYING OF LOT 49 (during the long gestation of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW) I think the shifts made in the location and in some of the action (by Scott Smith, who also wrote the screenplay for A SIMPLE PLAN) ultimately make the story work better as a film.
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