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    <body><![CDATA[From the start this is clearly the novel of a man actively striving after masterpieces. Each word is so perfectly chosen, it's unbelievable, and despite its length, the writing is so full of integrity that the reader can't possibly question or wonder if this could have been anything shorter than a 4...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62967430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book concerns an old woman named Sally Abbott <br/>who's been chased upstairs by her brother, James Page, an American puritan-type, who believes in &quot;good hard work&quot; and is always biting down on his pipestem til it snaps and so on. She's been chased into her room by him with a stick o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27900550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book so many years ago. I do not even barely remember it. I just remember I was obsessed with it and could not put it down. It has two stories throughout. A story within a story. That got in my way when I first started reading it. So I put it down. But, like so many books, I picked it up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68313961">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[That Gardner was brilliant and actually practiced what he really preached was not a surprise to me as a BIG fan of his books on writing.  What amazed me, besides the quality of his metaphors, his scheme, was the joy and fun I had in reading it, and I think he had in writing it.  A book of living peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69968082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my favorite opening scenes of all time. a book of light and apples, stubborn siblings and wild dignity. maybe what i fell in love with was the sort of old person i would not mind being...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very different book for me. There were some wonderful passages but the characters were very disagreeable. The subplot of a novel within a novel could have been skipped.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love John Gardner's writing- he is challenging without being gimmicky, profound without being pretentious, thorough without being boring, and approaches every moment of his work with the utmost integrity.  While this one didn't dethrone <em>The Sunlight Dialogues</em> as my favorite of his, and one of my f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74860025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my top 100. not overly feminine...depth and breadth and wise...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[such a good job of letting us into his character's lives.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this in hard cover after being enthralled with The Sunlight Dialogues. I proceeded to buy everything he wrote but nothing matched The Sunlight Dialogues, not even this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While he never matched his novel Grendel, he produced a pretty good book here. The story-within-a-story technique can test one's patience but here it seemed OK.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A breathtaking book that no one seems to read.  Poignant, intelligent, funny and with one of the most beautiful endings ever put to print.]]></body>
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