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Kaufman finally pops his literary cherry. Millard Kaufman, co-creator of Mister Magoo and twice an Academy Award nominee for screenwriting, has now written his first novel at the age of 90. And being a nonagenarian evidently hasn’t hampered the sharpness of his wit. His novel charts the misadventures of Judd Breslau, a callow young genius who slips from one sexual encounter and unlikely job to another, eventually winding up in a prison cell in Iraq, from where he tells his story.There’s something undeniably old-fashioned about Bowl Of Cherries. Judd’s haphazard travels through America seem to belong more to the 60s of Edward Abbey than the noughties, and his eventual relocation to Iraq seems a careless grab for relevance above anything else. Not that it matters all that much: Kaufman seems entirely unconcerned with anything other than cramming as many funny lines into his book as possible. As a series of comic vignettes and punchy one-liners A Bowl Of Cherries rollicks along, but as a novel it’s all over the place. Bowl Of Cherries by Millard Kaufman, out now published by McSweeney’s.
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