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Title: Just not up to snuff
Review: Reads like late Ballard (not a good thing). The characters are thin and obvious, and the retreat was handled far more expertly by Lorrie Moore in her story, "Terrible Mother." The penultimate scene is how he should have ended this novella. But as it is, he ends it on a curiously tyro note and here we are.
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