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Title: Women in their Beds Who Can't Get Up
Review: Perhaps, as someone who does want to escape when they open up a book and start to turn the pages, this book was the wrong selection. Ms. Berriault certainly crafts unwavering depictions of alienation, isolation and banality without apology as her characters remain insulated from feeling - much the way inpatients in a local asylum bounce off padded walls as their next injection of lithium is delivered. The Greeks, I'm told, wrote comedy as a form of entertainment for the masses. Tragedy was written to bring about catharsis and nowhere in these pages was that release to be found.
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