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Title: Slow and Tepid
Review: A slow and tepid tale of the Vietnam era. Set in New Jersey, the central character is a teenage boy who is trying to deal with growing up in a time of changing values. His father works at a gun factory, but he falls in with an odd leftist who runs a local hotel and is the main anti-war organizer in the town. Loads of typical events occur: golden-boy older brother goes to Vietnam and gets killed, Mrs. Robinson syndrome as boy gets involved with the older activist, boy becomes estranged from parents, parents refuse to admit futility of older sons death, blah, blah, blah. I think you had to have lived through the times to remotely enjoy this book.
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