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    <body><![CDATA[I was hugely dissapointed in this book. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> reviewer &quot;Flibertigibbit&quot; says it best, so I am just going to quote her here:<br/><br/>Brooklyn is flat and dull. This, incidentally, has little to do with Toibin's famously economical prose style - which I love. The principal problem is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81285682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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