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Review title: It doesn't work. It's terribly overrated.
Product review: Yes, people are raving, and I began to read with greatanticipation, but the book doesn't work. The charactersare not at all deeply imagined, and I never felt close toany of them. Maybe this is what happens when you base a bookon an idea (and one lifted from the news) rather thancharacters.And her prose is fine but nothing great, no sentences you'llbe jotting down and quoting to others.A great novel really brings you deep within the people ofthe story and shows you something new. This doesn't do itat all.Read Russell Banks or Joyce Carol Oates or John Edgar Wideman.They write great novels.
