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Epic American family saga of a moderately dysfunctional family, loosely based around whether they will return to the family home for one last Christmas together. Some of the shifts from one section/viewpoint/situation to another take a bit longer to settle into than others, and the Lithuanian plotline stretches credulity a little. Wonderful descriptions and insights into people's fears, behaviour and motivation - especially when one inevitably sees parallels with characters in the book and peopl
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I've been reading this book for years. I doubt I'll get thru it before I die.
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(Review in progress)... My first impression was "Bulwer Lytton." Since the first paragraph is purple as purple gets. In fact, I get the sense it was a single sentence chopped up to make a paragraph...
"The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel it: something terrible was going to happen. The sun low in the sky, a minor light, a cooling star. Gust after gust of disorder. Trees restless, temperatures falling, the whole northern religion of things coming to an end. N ...more
"The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel it: something terrible was going to happen. The sun low in the sky, a minor light, a cooling star. Gust after gust of disorder. Trees restless, temperatures falling, the whole northern religion of things coming to an end. N ...more
Very good book and very dysfunctional. The more you hate the characters (and it is pretty difficult to like them), the more you like the book.
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