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Title: Please, Anita, you can do better than this!
Review: While Anita Shreve's prose is always haunting and lyrical, her use of a manipulative plot device leaves one not breathless, but infuriated. I have been a fan of Shreve's for years, and when she is good, no one does it better. This book, however, is a huge disappointment. Perhaps she is being rushed to press. Perhaps she simply underestimates her audience. Whatever the reason, this reader was both and annoyed and irritated with Ms. Shreve for so hackneyed and trite an ending!
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