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Title: My first Oates book, and my last Oates book....
Review: I was amazed that some of what I read in the dustcover blurbs compared this writing to Dickens and James. If this was representative of Oates' writing I won't be reading her again. The characters were without depth. The situations were created without subtlety. And I found the shifting point of view irritating: if the youngest son would have been the consistent storyteller the telling of the story might have been improved. Had I seen "Day-glo" once more I'd have thrown the book away!Maybe it would have been less tedious if it had been around 150 pages shorter.
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