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Title: Calpurnia is a dud (mostly)
Review: The novel starts out well enough. An old matriarch with a scandalous past has died. The central character (Elizabeth)is set to manage the disposal of what is left of her estate. She meets various members of her family and some of her old friends and begins to unravel her past...Except it's not much of a past. The matriarch and everyone else is pretty boring. One relative likes to watch tennis on T.V. and ruminate on the state of the game in the mid 1980s. Haven't heard people talk about Ivan Lendl for a while...None of the two dozen characters is really very interesting and there isn't much of a climax.The writing is pretty good and there is some atomosphere...Best thing about "Calpurnia"? The cover photo!
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