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Title: Boring and in need of a good editor
Review: I was tricked into buying this book by the good reviews it got in the literary press. Actually it is overly long and mostly a bore. It is said to evoke the atmosphere of the US in the cold war period. Actually I don't think DeLillo knows anything more about this than he got from looking at the pictures in old issues of Life magazine and the attempts at evocation through long stretches of purple prose beg for the red pencil.
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