Title: Have I missed something?
Product review: I hesitate to so hastily condemn a book that has won a Pulitzer prize and garnered so many favorable reviews from Amazon users. However, the question persists: have I missed something? Am I simply too young to understand what is going on? Was I supposed to identify with Bascomb? Could anybody? To compare such a cliche-ridden, tired piece of calculated Americana with the works of Updike and Irving seems to me nothing short of heresy. Great American Novel my left foot. Hmmph.
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