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Title: Great prose, but where's the story?
Review: This guy can write -- if only he could learn the rules of novel writing: conflict, climax, resolution. There's none of that here. What we get instead is a sequence of gorgeously written character studies, with no real story tying them together. Finus, the main character, is an utterly dull and plodding creature, in love with a woman Birdie Wells, who herself isn't very strongly developed. What's so great about her?
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