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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder if I would have given this 4 stars had I not just finished Yates' Revolutionary Road.  Perhaps this is a good solid novel but it just faded next to that one.  His characters, as in RR, are certainly drawn with great sympathy and artistry.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book based on the quality reading I experienced with <em>Revolutionary Road<em>.  This novel didn't quite blow my mind the way <em>RR<em> did, but it was a fascinating read, nonetheless.  I found myself reminiscing about the relationship I had with my own mother, and contemplating the parallels.  F...</em></em></em></em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52545128">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What's Yates got against the arts?  This is the second book I've read by him where art comes off as a life choice for dilettantes.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best Yates novel I've read since Revolutionary Road.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love it, love it, love it.  Could reflect today's world.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The story about Bobby Prentice- his mother (a divorced- wandering- overbearing mother)- and their lives together and apart. At Nineteen- Bobby finds himself in the army- and ultimately in the European theatre towards the end of WWII.  Bobby struggles with becoming a man- at least in his vision of wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37334760">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Yates; everyone is always in a mid-life crisis and searching for meaning.  Sometimes the people get a little self-centered, but the questions they ask apply to all of us.]]></body>
    
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