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Great story. Jane Hamilton is not a writer of short, pithy statements. She is perceptive and writes long, langorous prose that one cannot speed through. Her sentences have a nice rhythmic flow. Glad I picked this up.
The life of a Midwesterner named Walter, both as a teenager in the 1970s and as an adult 20 years later. The novel is a poignant look at a boy's stuggle to come to terms with his mediocrity as a ballet dancer, his brother's terminal illness, and his realization that he is gay, and how those struggles help shape the introspective man he becomes. It is a melancholy tale, told well, but -- like Walter -- it lacks a certain spirit or grit to make it particularly compelling, and it fails to leave a l
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Oct 17, 2022
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