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Title: Unimpressive effort.
Review: The portraiture of this novel began and remained disappointingly lifeless. Despite a minor revelation to the protagonist, it remained difficult to view him with any compassion; he never entertains, shocks, or angers the reader. A catalogue of dusty arguments and tired literary maneuvers by a practiced writing hand. A few dynamics were well handled (between Thomas and his wife); but skillful handling can hardly rescue a book with very little to say. A man with spiritual crisis named Thomas?? My,my, how clever.
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