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Title: mixed feelings by the end
Review: I read this book because it won a Pulitzer Prize. That is what brought me to it. I would find myself liking passages at one moment and then not liking the book further along...only to have the cycle repeat itself. The prose, wasn't particularly poignant or poetic...two characteristics that for me make a book truly great and memorable. The storyline is what kept me reading... it was refreshing and for the time period in which the book was published, decidedly relevant. Three characters were given a voice beginning and ending with Abigail. Abigail always seemed like a vague child and an even vaguer woman... I was glad to see the novel end the way it did. Though perhaps it was a bit over the top... at least it would have been in "real" life. I am leaving the book wishing there had been a little more depth to the characters, but also eager to discuss the myriad details that held the book together and struck me as the most interesting.
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