Title: If you want Dickinsian, read Dickens.
Product review: I tried to read this book when it first came out and it became the first book I didn't finish. Until Quincunx, I always finished a book once started, figuring that there might be a gem by the end and a bad beginning shouldn't be a deterent. After 400 pages, I gave up. The mother and son went from one bad decision to the next undetered by intelligent thought. Their decisions were totally implausible. I found this book to be all that is bad about Dickins, with none of the good.I passed my copy on to a series of friends, who like me, coulnd't finish it. Long, difficult, challenging books are wonderful when the characters and plot are well thought out. Unfortunately none of this is the case in Quinconx.
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