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Title: Mediocre
Review: Despite the "hot" cover and interesting historical period involved, this book is actually quite dull and poorly written. Spender is known as a poet and memoirist, not a novelist. There is no narrative pace, the characters are thinly drawn, and the plot is meandering. It is interesting as an artifact in the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary history, for those who care, not as a novel in itself. Let the reader be warned.
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