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Title: Not a bad read, but not as good as "The Shipping News."
Review: Annie Proulx is as master craftsman (craftsperson?) with words. Her sentences are magnificant and her dialog intricate and effective. This book, however, lacks a certain plot "glue" which it needs to hold it together. In "The Shipping News", one really comes to know the characters. This is not the case here. While each of the book's short stories is interesting, one finishes the book with the sense of leaving the table before dinner was complete
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