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Title: disappointingly over-rated
Review: Well, I finished it. The reviewers say that this novel cannot be relegated to plot. That's for sure, I found it hard to follow and boring. The reviewers say the emotional content is restrained, subtle. I say that with a couple of notable exceptions, the emotional content is numbing.Imo, the only redeeming features of this book are the finely drawn characters and the realistic portrayal of the tedium of daily life. (No wonder it was boring.)I think that this novel would have made a terrific short story. I'm sorry I didn't get to read it in "The New Yorker."
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