Title: How Not to Write a Novel
Product review: In addition to the comments my co-readers have already made, I'd like to point out that the book takes place in an unmemorable suburb of a nameless (?) town in ???Ohio? Illinois? Idaho? wherever it is, it's completely devoid of any identifying details. Similarly, what era is the story supposed to take place in? Is it the 50s? 70s? 90s? By trying to be universal, it ends up being nowhere.There's a gauzy wishful curtain over the whole book, with the repentant mom redeemed by her husband's brush with death...For a contrast, read "The Corrections," which is vivid and clean and unsentimental, and seems real.
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