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420:"as vast and ambitious as the country itself, a panorama of a particular culture being born and dying and being reborn again. The book is a lengthy exegesis on the merits of first love and true love--in this case, two very different phenomena." But it also stated that "the novel, with its many pages and its extensive cast of characters, aspires to comparison with
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praised it as "a very respectable and serious descendant of the work of D.H. Lawrence," adding that Hamann had created "a carefully devised, coherent world, filled with opinions that need to be spoken—and heard." It also called the novel "A stern rebuke to chick lit everywhere," adding that the story
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also gave the novel a starred review, calling it a "closely observed, Holden
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372:"lyrical and analytic," adding that the "depth of character examination...generates the novel's powerful, sympathetic backbone and propels a complex coming-of-age tale for a new generation," it also stated that the book was "overly lengthy."
295:"reminds us that all human lives are potentially sacred; that no lives should be judged and dismissed out of hand; that young women, though seen for eons as primarily just attractive objects, actually possess soul and will and sentience."
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said that the novel is "a realistic, resonant, and universal story," adding that "Evie has a deadpan delivery Holden
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is a "magnificent book," "incredibly intense and passionate," "romantic in the grand sense," "a rich, affecting experience," and "completely entrancing."
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