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Review title: A mystery...how poor writers get recognition as authors!
Product review: Anne Tyler is so much lauded as a wonderful author...well, it just beats me how that has happened. A occasional good turn of a phrase does not make a great author! Ladder of Years...this plot is weak, the characterizations shallow, the ending implausible, the dialogue tedious. I only finished reading it because it was an assignment for our book club. All this business about Tyler writing about a slice of life... it isn't a slice of anybody's life I could imagine. Could Delia really walk back in from her 18-month totally selfish disregard of her family and they would act like she was just returning from a weekend out of town? Only in a novel in which the author is too lazy to do any real writing.
