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    <![CDATA[The Emperor's Children]]>
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    <![CDATA[<em>The Emperor&#8217;s Children</em> is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune&#8212;about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--and not-- in New York City. In this<em> </em>tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn’t start to get into this one until about 200 pages in, when out of nowhere came intrigue! scandal! Until that point the characters came across as either too irritating or too false to grab me. (Seriously, Ludovic Seeley? Bootie Tubb? Sounds like a cartoon villain and his sidekick.) <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2623911">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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