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"Many of White's distinctive gifts are in evidence here: his tart humour, his smart cross-cultural commentary, and above all his ability to write beautiful prose....Unfortunately..., from a writer capable of such graceful precision, it is painful to encounter language which is often slack and lazy....More threatening to the novel's emotional impact is White's uneven hand with detail....White's uneven pacing in this focused tale may not be surprising when one considers that he is a writer most at home with the broad canvas, the vivid catalogue...."White, Edmund is the author of 'Married Man' with ISBN 9780679781448 and ISBN 0679781447.
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