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Title: We Were the One-Dimensional Mulvaneys
Review: I could barely make it throught this book. If Ms. Oates had spent as much time on character development as she did with the excruciating details of the Mulvaney's homestead, she might have had something. The farm animals have more personality than the people. Whether it's the cheerfully shallow mother, or the superficially gregarious, loving father who turns into an alcoholic ogre, I just couldn't feel anything for these people.Then, to top it all off, the author wraps everything up neatly in a one-chpater epilogue that seems to ignore the magnitude of everything else that's gone on in the book. It seemed false and jarring after the agony of a book rife with boring details.
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