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Review title: a good writer, a lousy book
Product review: what happened to anita shreve? i used to love her -now it seems like they will publish anything she writes, so she's stopped trying. instead of telling one story well, she tells nine stories poorly. woven together are totally disconnected narratives (including a ww2 era tangent) that never fit together. i didn't care about these characters. the dialogue is just plain awful. the story is predictable and melodramatic.
