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Title: very disappointed
Review: I'm reviewing this novel late; I read it a while back. But I am surprised at the majority of positive reader reviews. Like reading the prologue in Cunningham's The Hours, reading this novel's equisitely written first few pages was like having the icing before the cake and finding the cake itself bland and flat (and, well, so depressing, too, without being interesting, and dark without really terrifying, and the style itself throughout, irritatingly problematic).But there is a brilliance and depth of image in those first pages, and I hope that one day in another novel--or novella?-- this author--I think he's fairly young--will give whatever time it takes to sustain (for the most part) that same genius through to the end. I also loved the title.
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