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Title: Air Poetry
Review: Susan Minot has a fine command of the English language, but she wastes it on this story. Her prose has been compared to poetry; in the absence of a compelling story and sympathetic characters, her writing is precious and pretentious. I had difficulty developing a feeling for the main character, Ann, with whose impending death we are expected to sympathize. The unraveling of her tale, centering on a weekend love affair many years before, is a protracted tease that ultimately amounts to little more than air.
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