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    <body><![CDATA[<u>Please Don't Come Back from the Moon</u> is a rare creation - surrealism without pretension, grit without artlessness, sorrow without self-pity. Even where the story sinks into its own inexpressible core, or the scenes feel rushed, or you start to feel that the book is something Bakopoulous had to put o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24006368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More accurately 3.5.<br/><br/>Set in Maple Rock, a fictional Ukrainian working-class suburb of Detroit, where one year all of the fathers in town went to the moon. Narrated by the son of one of the fathers, sixteen at the time his father disappeared, the book spans the subsequent decade as Mikey g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21366039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a gift from a very lovely woman at Harcourt, who interviewed me for a position in the publicity department well above my level. It became quite clear--approximately fourteen seconds into the interview--that I wasn't quite right for the gig, and that I only half-heartedly wanted the job...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2381803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this book. Which is perhaps the best you can ask of anything. Of course, it was set in Michigan, concerned a bunch of guys who talk like me, and featured all of my old friends, or some version of them. So I could be biased.<br/><br/>Thanks to Knickers who lent this book to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44530736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd be lying if I said I thought this was a perfect book, but I do think that it is exactly the kind of book that needs to be more widely read (based on the jacket quotes, it could hardly have been more praised, or I'd say that, too). It moves, it has believable characters with understandable motiva...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17139745">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite a good book and the author has been a friend of my brother since they were in Kindergarten (many moons ago:).  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful first novel.  Glimpse into life in Detroit and how the economy impacts a neighborhood and a family.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who has ever felt estranged from a parent, the pressures of working class America, the advancing responsibilities of adulthood, or the need to retreat away from the harsh realities of life into the imagination. Those of us who grew up during ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52200636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love reading new novelists...Dean provides a really creative , thought provoking novel here. It's about a town with a group of boys who all experience the disappearance of their dads. It depicts how they all grow up in the shadow of this missing figure. They all claim that their dad's went off to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4943003">more...</a>]]></body>
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