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Title: What a wonderful tearjerker
Review: While I found this book a little hard to get into, I ended up really savoring it and sobbing over the last pages. It really is worth the diving into, and when I turned the last page I immediately went back and re-read the opening chapters and got a lot more out of them, both in terms of the characters and some of the recurring imagery. There are multiple story strands, but the main two--passionate love discovered and lost and the fact that one's loved ones never really know you or your inner life--I found incredibly moving, and even now, writing this, am tearing up again! While I couldn't totally get into the morphine-induced poetry-like stream of consciousness passages I found there were poignant nuggets strewn throughout them, so don't skip them. I guess I'll rent the film soon but there's no way it could match the interior loveliness of this moving novel.
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