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Title: Awful!
Review: Nothing about this book would make me recommend it. The basic storyline is shallow, based on a false premise - that a man who learns that his fiancee has died overseas never recovers from his sorrow and uses that disappointment as an excuse to wallow for the next 40 years in an alcoholic fantasy about her. His story is told through a number of characters' accounts of the trials and trivia of his pathetic life. I felt removed by this method of story telling from any real emotional connection with the sad sack hero, "Charming Billy". Like Billy, this book [is bad]!
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