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Title: Kept waiting for it to start
Review: Let it be known that I listened to this book on cassettes. It may read differently. About 2/3 of the way through, I realized that all the character and place descriptions were there for their own sake. Up to that point, it led me to falsely think we needed to know the information for future reference. This book is not "about" anything. It follows the lives of a few fairly ordinary people and generally covers ground many other works have covered, but does so with Cheever's style. But when a book is about little other than the writing style of the author, it smacks of self-indulgence. I can recommend Cheever's great short stories, but this novel takes a long time to go nowhere and say things many other writers have also said.
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