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Title: Duller than dull, didn't captivate me at all
Review: What a shame. I wanted to like this book but I'm struggling to finish it. How is it that Dennis' daughter possesses these deep insights and the rest of the family appears clueless? And I have no sympathy or empathy for any of these characters. This novel could be summed up this way: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets drunk and dies. The rest of the content you could probably catch at an AA meeting. The prose is ponderous- Read Barbara Gowdy, E. Annie Proulx, or if you want to read another book about an Irish family, read Seamus Deane's fine novel "Reading in the Dark."
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