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    <body><![CDATA[Since I've suffer severe &quot;insomnia&quot;...I read this wonderful piece of literary genius during the middle of the night.<br/><br/>Alice Hoffman has written a hypnotic and mesmerizing novel with 'The Drowning Season'. I was sorry to see this novel end!<br/><br/>From back cover:<br/><br/>&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50065939">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to put this down  to hard to follow with the White Ester and Black Ester  or whatever see don't even care enough to get the name right  that's gotta say something ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rather bizarre, but couldn't stop reading it.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting contrast between life and death. Living in a place that holds both beauty and fear. This was a great one by Hoffman. I would read it again!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Typical Alice Hoffman- quirky characters, romance, beautiful writing!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was okay. It had some wonderful sentences and images, but did not impress me as much as some of Hoffman's other works.  People who like Hoffman's work in general will read it anyway; I wouldn't recommend it to someone who was asking me which of her books to try first.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A- This is a novel where the truth slowly pulls out--layers upon layers, stories where love is found in the oddest of places, where histories are not revealed until it's nearly too late. I love Hoffman's development of charact]]></body>
    
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