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Title: A story-challenged novel
Review: Wow, I really did not get this novel at all. It seemed less a novel than a disjointed series of semi-scenes. The characters are all indistinct, with the exception perhaps of the narrator, who seems more interested in philosophizing or coining aphorisms than telling us what's going on. Even the supposed subject of the novel, the narrator's disabled son, barely seems to materialize. The novel lacks a story, with many promising avenues going unexplored.In the end, I felt so much more could have been said, and so much less too.
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