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|pages=288
|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
|date=June 2007
|isbn=978-0747590200
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''The New York Time Bestseller'' it proclaims on its appropriately subdued jacket. The blurb is full of glowing praise from other sources: 'genius... the most masterful imaginable prose... '; 'page by page brilliance'; 'one of our finest novelists'.
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|name= Teddy Weinberger
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|comment=Enjoyed Lesley Mason's review of "After This," with which I also was disappointed. Lesley don't be puzzled at the glowing blurbs on the book's dustjacket. I just went on-line and found both NY Times's reviewers were also underwhelmed by the book. What I found incredibly frustrating about the treatment of Mary Keane was not so much the constant referring to her by her full name as the fact that she basically drops out of the story after the birth of her last baby. After that, the book goes on to all sorts of tangents, following the four children's lives--including an incredibly long chapter that takes place in England (Annie, the third child, is a junior-year-abroad English literature student and an evening at Professor Elizabeth's Wallace home is described in excruciatinly long detail). Happy to pick up in the review a reference to an author I am not familiar with--Heidi Pitlor. I hope to read something by Ms. Pitlor, since I approve of Ms. Mason's taste.
Shalom,
Teddy Weinberger
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