A Visible Man In An Invisible World - The Rumpus

By Aimee DeLongOctober 11, 20117 min read

Cognitive dissonance abounds in Chuck Klosterman’s second novel, The Visible Man, which ostensibly is about a guy who uses his ability to become virtually

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