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Title: Abandoning ship
Review: I picked this up again after putting it down 6 months ago--imagine my shock at not even recalling much of the 50+ pages I had already read. True, the story is lush and somewhat enrapturing in its description and setting. But I find it impossible to know Barr, much less give a hoot about his philosophies, actions and life. And, if this is a "woman's story" as I have read in several reviews, after 110 pages, no 3-dimentional woman character has yet surfaced. I wonder why an editor did not help Godshalk eliminate some of her dozens of extraneous characters and terms. This book is, in a word, frustrating.
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