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Title: I love Proulx's writing, BUT...
Review: ...this novel was simply the most depressing thing I've ever read... and I've read VOLUMES of memoirs from Holocaust survivors.Don't get me wrong-- I am ALL FOR a "sad" story, or one that doesn't have a "happy ending," but I DO expect a written work to actually take me somewhere-- I want to finish a book and feel that I've been taken on a journey, that I am better for having read it, no matter how "down" the conclusion may be.But this book doesn't live up to that one, VERY MODEST, criterion. I finished this book, and all I could think was "DAMN, I really wish I hadn't read that."As much as I love Proulx, and as much as I hate censorship, I have to admit that when I moved, I threw this book in the trash rather than toss it in the box of books destined for the local library. I just couldn't wish it on anyone else...
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