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Title: Verbose to the point of stupefaction
Review: No question, Lent can write. But this? The plot seems derived from old movies (oaters mostly), the story itself boiled over Faulkner. And that's my gripe. Lent should lay off the Faulkner imitation and find out who HE is. Faulkner's done his time, and we don't need to see him paroled. To those reviewers who were transported by this particular novel--and that appears to be most of them--I suggest the Snopes Trilogy.To tell the truth, until I read this I thought Pynchon's Mason and Dixon wasn't much. Even when I didn't like it, I had to admit it was hysterical. That's something else Lent could use: humor. It's a hallmark of American letters.
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