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Title: IRA redoux
Review: Can an old caper be brought up to date? Katharine Weber's The Music Lesson would like us to think so. With the hot topic of art history, and re-examination of the dutch master Vermeer, whose works have been recently mounted in celebrated exhibits, and other books about this painter, notably Tracy Chevalier's wonderfully satisfying The Girl with the Pearl Earring, the author involves us in personal tragedy, self-redemption through love and scholarship, all with sex as an easy bedfellow. From there it's a quick slide into crime, via politics, Irish-British ones at that. Was I the only one to guess the ending of this book a chapter earlier? Seems like deja vu to me.
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