Sara F. (QueenRabbit) - , reviewed on 1/10/2010 + 16 more book reviews

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As dry and as out of step with contemporary literature as Aesop's Fables, I have a very hard time discerning why Martin Dressler won the Pulitzer Prize. Character development practically does not exist, though there are many moments of insightful description and incisive comment on a given scene. If the point was to demonstrate what lack of education does to a man, then the book does so in spades. It's flat, boring, predictable; terms that high school composition teachers might level at beginning student efforts. I cannot find it in heart or mind to recommend this novel to stand anywhere close great literature of the late 20th century.

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