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meganzc's review
4.0
From the porch Chuck Becker adds loudly, "God bless us all! And God bless America!"
Several voices murmur "Amen." Looking up and away with a sigh of mild annoyance, Peter Simpson happens at just that moment to see a meteor streak left to right across the moonless, brightly constellated eastern sky.
So what? he asks himself.
So nothing.
I can't decide if these stories are (in the words of Daniel Green) a "clear-eyed indictment of the very middle-class lifestyle to which almost all of the characters in the book have readily acceded" or a resigned reflection on comfortable obsolescence.
Regardless, equal parts fun and heartbreaking, often at the same time.
nv6acaat's review
4.0
It's like Updike, only shorter and with plenty of 'who's the author?' po-mo tricks. Another difference: it's interesting.
anndouglas's review
3.0
A novel in linked stories. The Development is much darker than I had expected -- and I had gone in expecting a hard-hitting social critique. Don't say you weren't warned....
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