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Title: Barren
Review: Set in New Jersey's famous Pine Barrens, the story is about a man whose nightmares link two murders 20 years apart. His connection to the second murder destroys his marriage. Unfortunately, the wife is a cardboard character, and the hero's hallucinations get tedious. I skipped the middle 100 pages to jump to the denouement, but neither the story nor the writing had improved. Not what you might expect from a literary icon.
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