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Title: Bogged down in excess imagery, story sinks
Review: Powerful imagery of nature, no matter how well worked or oft repeated (excessively so, here) carries a thin plot and superficial characterizations only so far. This book has the 'spirit' of a strong short story at its heart, but the sometimes tortuous stretching of the raw material, with the repeated and eventually excessive and ultimately numbing imagery is finally very unsatisfying, like the aroma of a meal that doesn't really exist. Plot inconsistencies, pidgeons with profound symbolic importance who just 'disappear' from the story, and annoying lapses (Rose and Conrad meet as 11 yr olds and yet Rose's headstone proclaims her 5 yrs Conrad's junior at her death) ultimately drown the waterlogged prose of beautiful imagery overgrowing itself like Rose's untended garden.
