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Review title: it could have been so much better
Product review: THe first 75 pages of this book are really excellent: a marriage in crisis is portrayed with humor and pain, the characterisations of the family bitingly realistic.THen, like way too many contemporary novels, it suddens adds this ridiculously lite surrealistic tone, and completely loses credibility. Badness get "[taken] out" of people and personalities miraculously change, etc. The novel then turns onto a strange and rather too general question of how to become a "good" person, which bored me, but that is a matter of taste. From a very good start, it lost for me.This is a talented writer. Perhaps my wish for more realism, which he can clearly accomplish with wit and style, is outdated. But I did not like the way the book degenerated into a kind of sit com.Alas, I am so often disappointed by the new "happening" novels.
