Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2010Review of The Petting Zoo The Petting Zoo is one of the most noteworthy novels of 2010. It achieves this status not by Jim Carroll was no flashing meteor on the cultural scene, however. By the time of his death, Carroll had, moreover, the trappings of legend about him. The “Catholic Boy” rebel Billy Wolfram, like Carroll, hails from Irish Catholic working class roots. His upward assent in The Petting Zoo is the work of a genius, rather than a work of genius. For all that, it deserves © 2010 California Literary Review – all rights reserved. The original article can be found here .
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