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The Cost of Living ReviewDavid Dorsey's first book was 1994's "The Force," an astonishingly rich and detailed portrait of the lives of a Xerox sales team in Cleveland. With "The Cost of Living," he shifts to fiction, with more conventional results, despite beginning his novel, pretentiously, with a list of "dramatis personae."
Dorsey introduces us to Rochester, N.Y.'s Richard Cahill, "a midlevel managerial type in a mid-size advertising agency, trying to provide for himself and his family, feeling the weight of it get heavier every year." Cahill faces several crisis points: His wife may or may not be having an affair with her work partner; a close co-worker may or may not be covering up for a client's embezzlement; Cahill and his financially strapped family are considering a move to a larger house. When he winds up in the middle of a McDonald's robbery, he unthinkingly shouts at the holdup men-and his life changes. "When I look back it now, I realize the moment I shouted that kid's street name was the beginning of everything that has happened in my life since then," he tells us. What happens is that he becomes inextricably entangled in a vaguely defined underworld of drugs and money, with some sex and basketball thrown into the mix. The gang members, waxing philosophic and inauthentically profanity-free, aren't particularly convincing, but Cahill is. It's unusual in fiction-if hardly in life-to meet "a suit" who doesn't dream of being a star photographer or artist or musician, and Cahill's ambitions are refreshingly limited. "It bored me to describe the work, let alone describe it," he tells us, but "I enjoyed doing a good job, when that was possible, even though the work itself meant almost nothing to me. It wasn't a calling or even a fulfilling vocation, so much as a game you played to win."
Dorsey is best in the most mundane situations; Cahill's work dilemmas, complete with office politics, salary disputes and ethical questions, make for stronger scenes than the startling white-guy-goes-native material, which never q! uite comes together.The Cost of Living Overview

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