Title: very disappointing
Product review: Reading the jacket description of this book, I thought it sounded interesting. But I ended up hating this book and was barely able to finish it. This book tries to cover too many things, including the Holocaust, the life of a weird librarian, his "relationship" with a student, and his crazy wife who is now deceased. Everyone in the book is obsessed with the poet T.S. Eliot and snippets of his poems are scattered throughout the book at random and awkward moments which ultimately detract from the story instead of enhancing it. Cooley has an abstract philosophical way of writing which I found extremely annoying. The characters are too involved in their own selfish worlds and were completely uninteresting. Terrible book.
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