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Title: AN APT TITLE
Review: There is little movement in this exploration of a mid level suburban English family. Admittedly, there are passages of remarkable insight, but enormous amounts of time are devoted to the author's obsessions with parturition, infant development,pale sexuality, and show-offy displays of her academic credentials in literature. I kept hoping for some original thoughts and theories of human behavior, but was disappointed and bored. Much of this material has been explored before and with greater skill and intelligence.As I moved from page to page it reminded me of slogging through the swamps of Mississippi, on bivouac, back in 1945. It was something that had to be done, but I wondered why.
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