Title: Characters don't ring true
Product review: After reading A Gesture Life, I expected wonderful character portraits. Instead, I found the portrayals of just about all the characters so artificial and contrived - right down to having the protagonist fly a plane - that the book was almost painful to read. I forced myself to get through about 2/3's of it and then simply could not go any further. Even the Long Island of the book seemed like the view of an outsider, not that of the insider it was supposed to be from. I recommended A Gesture Life to everyone. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
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