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Review title: Beautifully written, meaningless story
Product review: Was taken immediately by the beauty of the prose. Ann Patchett is a literary craftsman of the highest degree. Her descriptions are unmatched. However, did not come to truly care about any of the characters. They did not seem real or fully realized. Also, the story takes strange, unsupported twists. Why does the opera star have an affair with the Japanese businessman? Why does she marry his assistant? None of it makes any sense. And after the storming of the performance by the terrorists, there is no action for page after page. It was a painfully difficult read toward the end; and it was a great disappointment that such a beautiful writer did not have a better imagination.
