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Title: lifeless, who cares?
Review: an editor should have taken a hammer--the checkovian smoking gun in this flat novel--and smashed apart the manuscript; it reads like a well-crafted exercise from an mfa writers mill grad factory. the characters, the interior dialogue of the main character, who heads a non-profit foundation in the south, and is squeezed from all side--by his wife, job, two kids--is neither likable, or unlikeable. he's inert. this is a who cares kind of book. when his relatives show up and crowd into the story, the air goes out; i enjoy contemporary fiction--jon billman, thom jones, tom paine--but i want the characters to be more than talking heads for an author's attempt to grapple with societal and personal disintegration.
