Title: after a certain point. . .i couldn't pick it up.
Review: Toibin's prose is, technically speaking, above reproach, however, the total effect is bloodless and dispassionate. Perhaps I didn't give it enough of a chance, but if a book hasn't 'sparked' me by page 100, I put it down. One of the advantages, I guess, of non-required reading.
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