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Review title: boyd at his least interesting
Product review: this, along with Stars and Bars, is Boyd's most tossed-off novel--but it's still Wm Boyd, the best British novelist living. the characters here are pallid and limp, the plot plodding, the "reversals" less than interesting. much much better to pick up The New Confessions or Brazzaville Beach--two of the most riveting novels written this century.
