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Review title: MILDLY INTERESTING
Product review: I know Stegner is supposed to be a great writer and he is widely admired. But I found this novel boring and lightweight, fraught with attempts at deeper meaning that don't quite work.The content is not engaging or very interesting. I read 72 pages, and the main character, an old man in a wheelchair, is obsessed with the life of his grandmother, Susan, who carried the values he admires. The world around him is sliding downhill, morally and intellectually, so he is writing a book about Susan, to tell the world how to live. Good freakin' luck.Susan is a mildly interesting character, and her life is also mildly interesting. She was in love with some guy, and she and a girlfriend hung around with him, but he fell in love with the other woman. So she married another man. OK, but so what?I'd have to be alone on a desert island, with nothing else to read, to want to finish this book.
