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Title: no, no, no, not even close
Review: Fitzgerald has a very quirky style. And the thing about quirky, too easily it becomes cute. It's a fine line, like a Gary Larsen cartoon that just misses. (Is that why he quit?) And this book is filled with a lot of lines that not only miss, they don't even come close. Not too cute by half, but by many times over.The Bookshop was a perfect book. A gem. (What's with the Booker? So often to an author's inferior work (see Last Orders, not Waterland.) Offshore was a pretty good book. This book is awful.
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