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  <title><![CDATA[As Max Saw It]]></title>
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  <default_description>Fleeing the collapse of his first marriage, Max becomes a   summer-house guest on Lake Como and meets two men who will shape his   life--Charlie, a famous architect and Toby, his startlingly beautiful   male companion. Reprint. &lt;i&gt;NYT.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intriguing mix of characters in this one, and it took me a while to get into it, but eventually won me over. Max is an art queen who's hugely jaded, and the opening scene reminded me in a bad way of all those insufferable rich Manhattanites that Woody Allen is so fond of. Stick with it, as the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63852590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Suspect I ready this in response to a NYTBR review. Remember liking it enough but don't remember anything more.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[parts of it are rough going, but lovely style, similar to mcewan]]></body>
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