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Shadow on Summer

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At first you are taken in by the beautiful imagery, the way in which Christy Brown explains everything. You are enraptured.

Then you hit page 100 and you get thoroughly sick of people who don't talk like real people and vivid descriptions of every single little thing like its a Walt Whitman poem.

A writer travels to America to work on his second book and there he hooks up with a photographer, but since he's so full of self-loathing and doubt he can't communicate with her. There's also another character who is his friend who tries to control him every step of the way. He's also supposed to be in love with her, but she's such a harpie, you wonder why he is even talking to her, much less being in love.

Ultimately this book is like a Harper's Magazine article - a lot of verbage that ultimately fails to cover up the lack of interest in the plot, character or style. (There's even a character who kind of swears and is almost interesting, but exits stage left just as soon as you suspect that the book might turn interesting.)