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I was quite surprised by my reaction to this book. I was largely unable to become interested because the characters felt somehow stilted. In several cases, the dialog particularly struck me as almost pedantic. Now, I am generally the last person to demand high levels of realism from an author and try to follow the author's path to see what they have to say. Here, I felt rather like I was being shown that the author could do high minded literary work, and as a result, the spoken words of the characters often had a kind of self consciously high drama to them that felt unnatural. Because the 'unnatural' didn't feel deliberate, the dialog often felt flat. Many aspects of the writing are indeed compelling but the overall effect was lost on me.
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ISBN:
9780312423582
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
07/01/2004
Publisher:
PICADOR USA
Series info:
Picador Modern Classics
Pages:
326
Height:
.90IN
Width:
5.50IN
Thickness:
1.25
Number of Units:
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Copyright Year:
2003
Author:
Shirley Hazzard
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The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmulle
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