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Title: Will somebody edit this guy, please!
Review: Conrad's novel is ambitious, I'll give it that much. But the excruciatingly stilted, stifling prose combined with an almost obsessive desire to catalog meaningless trivia hurts this book a great deal. It's readable, but not very rewarding The descriptions of Chicago, a city I lived in for many years, seem like they were lifted from a guidebook. Good idea, woefully pretentious execution.
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