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Title: Poetry and Fiction blend like Mustard and Mayo
Review: There are some poets who can write fiction even if they aren't really poets. Marquez, clearly, is one. His sentences are poems. And yet somehow these poems cohere and tell a story that is beautiful and intelligent. Mary Gaitskill tries to pull this off in Veronica and fails miserably. The poetry is, at times, beautiful, and the story, at times, is interesting, but together they form a sloppy lit mashup that's ultimatley unrewarding on all fronts. Skip it, read here stories instead.
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