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Title: No Magic Here
Review: After total entrancement with Patchett's "Bel Canto" perhaps I was expecting too much from this book. Behind the flashy prose, time shifting gimmickry and mundane dream/reality superimposition there is a simple and not particularly appealing story. Very slow reading and very little reward for sticking it through to the end.Read "Bel Canto". Let this one disappear.
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