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Title: very colourful and intense
Review: I bought this novel after seeing it mentioned in colin channer's "waiting in vain" This was a very colourful novel and I loved the way updike stuck to the theme of love throughout thick and thin. Though I was thrown off or rather unimpressed by updike's fling with mysticysm, the irony of tristao end, and updike's boldness with sexuality is superb writing but I must say more than anything else updike's ability to research and colour a scene overshadows his raw writing skills.
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