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Title: Interesting, but comic?
Review: It was a new experience, reading a novel through without once caring one way or another about the protagonist. Alice Thrift has so little personality of any kind, it's difficult to think of her at all, either with affection or ill-will.However, this book is being marketed as a comic novel, and I don't believe I found any of it amusing in any way at all. The only emotion I recall registering was mild melancholy (because Alice Thrift seems to represent a banal mean seen in too many people these days who mistake a job for a life). Perhaps I prefer a bit more aggression in my comic novelists (Patrick Dennis, Dawn Powell, Jonathan Coe, P.G. Wodehouse), but I don't think this is comedy.
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