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Title: Disappointing
Review: I wanted to read this book because the writing style of one of my favorite authors (Fred Chappell) was compared to that of Eudora Welty. My expectations, therefore, were high and I felt disappointed and wholly unsatisfied when I finished reading it. Perhaps this is due to some failing or intellectual lacking of my own (after all, the book DID win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) but I found her characters to be rather flat and her attempts at abstract descriptions difficult to follow. If I had reread certain passages a few times, I might have been able to follow her train of thought but I read fiction for pleasure, not to practice my study skills. Throughout the entire book, I got the feeling that she was simply trying too hard to be poetic. While her writing must appeal to others, I, most likely, will not pick up another one of her books in the future.
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