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    <body><![CDATA[I was all set to give this one 5 stars, since I was intrigued by the weaving of one man's personal grief with the City of Grief, Jerusalem. I had a chance to be in Jerusalem, and the book does a wonderful, eerie job of capturing the place, especially its power to haunt. <br/><br/>And indeed, this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42551879">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd probably give this one 3.5.  It's beautifully written, a conjuration of impressive scope, and the first half had me completely absorbed.  Mr. Joyce does an amazing job at making Jerusalem a character in this book: an exotic, decrepit, aging beauty; crazy, <em>djinn</em>-haunted, schizophrenic, part whore...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42728377">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Graham Joyce, has become a favorite author of mine.  Along with Jeffrey Ford, the more I read of his work, the more I respect his talent.  This was the third novel by Joyce I have read.  From Publishers Weekly via Amazon.Com, here is a rundown on the plot:<br/><br/><blockquote><em>Fleeing his (only semi-explained...</em></blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66366141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm having a really tough time composing a review for this one because since finishing it I've been left with mixed feelings. I guess I'll start off with a brief story outline...<br/>Tom Webster has just lost his wife in a freak accident. He up and quits his schoolteaching job and heads to Jerusale...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13162961">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book.  The plot was well constructed and it had a nice development, but then it kind of kept developing and the pages remaining started decreasing rapidly while the story kept building up.  Eventually the story had to come to an end but the ending seemed more of an afterthought t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28597329">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A dark and emotionally intense page-turner, with a beautiful blending of fantasy and reality, madness and sanity, the sacred and the mundane. This is my second favorite Joyce book after The Facts of Life. ]]></body>
    
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