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I loved the prose style and the ambiguity of Miles Coverdale, the narrator, who is aptly named. The narrative arc is not atypical of romance, but the novel turns out to be more of a psychological portrait of Coverdale than a finely polished example of the genre. I started the book with the idea that it would be a comment on the Brook Farm commune popularized by 19th century American transcendentalism, and maybe it is in a very subtle way, but I found myself stretching to make a finding on that c
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This book is deeply weird (and good), but I can't explain why.
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The first Hawthorne novel I’ve read—fine, not great, not awful. Just sort of inconsequential.
Reread for book club discussion.
Oct 05, 2021
Inna
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it was amazing
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Angela Randall
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Kristina
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Kimley
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Jul 24, 2019
Karen Witzler
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