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The Petting Zoo Condition:Like New Would you want to eatA moving, vividly rendered novel from the author of The Basketball Diaries Suffused with Jim Carroll's humor and sharp wit, his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery, and his cool, sophisticated, streetsmart voice, The Petting Zoo is a frank, haunting examination of one artist's personal and spiritual quest. Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty eight year old star of the late 1980s New York art scene, views a show of Velzquez paintings and is so humbled by