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Title: Not Quite
Review: This tale had potential to mystify and beguile and most of what it did for me was to foster revulsion:Revulsion for the images called up by the actions of the mother who obviously had needed mental help for a long time, and for the casualness of the monk who blithely attempted to use physical sex to determine a spiritual outcome in his life.The mythical island described was beautiful, maybe to offset the ugliness of the selfish people involved in this slow-moving predictable novel.
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