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Title: Greater expectations
Review: I had great expectations for this book. And perhaps my strong reaction to it it the result of Oates excellent writing skills. The book is well written, the story interesting, as well as the prose. However, I became very frustrated with some of the characters. Especially the mother, who in my opinion, is only a strong, loving woman, when all things are wonderful with her man. When the going got tough, she simply got rid of the evidence-in this case a human being, her own daughter (who needed her mother to help her through a crisis in her life but was sent away).I don't often read books more than once, but I will read this one again - now aware of what I am getting into, perhaps I will get more than frustration out of it.
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