Title: A two star book with a troubling section
Review: The novel is not much to consider. It seems too constructed and the technique of osciallating between first- and third-person narrative seems too gimmicky. But I have to take issue with a poem in the book supposedly written by the narrator in the late 1960s. It is way WAY too close to Michael Ondaatje's poem, "The Cinnamon Peeler" and Lightman owes an apology or an explanation.
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