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William A. Thompson

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The master

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-14-23

As Henry James to the novel so M.R. James to the ghost story. Strong reader, too.



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Early preview

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-13-23

This early New England novel prefigures later, and better, work like POINT OF NO RETURN. It’s interesting in that regard and not a *bad* novel in its own right.

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Entertaining but badly produced

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-07-20

Fine performance. Good story. Lousy production. At one point a director or engineer actually says , Take 125.” At the opening of a sequence. Abbot and Archer deserve better.

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Beautiful novel

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-16-20

Beautifully read. The narrator is alive to the novel’s deep sense of the absurd, the irony, and yet the loveliness and loneliness of life.

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Narrator is fine

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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-01-19

Yes, it’s a theatrical performance—thank God. Sessions knows how to give life to the people and the prose, sometimes to appropriately dark comic effect. He knows what he’s doing.

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Perfect in Every Way

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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-05-17

I’m hooked. You will be, too.
Beautiful, baleful tale. Narration by a master.
Listen now.

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