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Title: This is trite, but he shows promise as a novelist
Review: Someone, somewhere should have told Stephen Carter that he is excessively verbose. After nearly 700 pages of racing toward "the arrangements! the arrangements!", it was a serious let-down when they only kind of came together.... The nearly innavigable twists and turns in the hackneyed thriller plot could give you some serious nausea.That said, the characters here are drawn very well and the observations about black middle class life were pointed and insightful. Nevertheless, the repetition, even in this, was enough to make me wonder if the editor wasn't allowed to cut anything?
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