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From: femke Category: Books Date: 04 June 2007 Time: 09:49 AM Review: This reads like a cross between a romantic novel and an attack on radical feminisim, or perhaps they are the same things. I don't read much fiction of this ilk (popularish sort of contemporary writers), and I was surprised by the simplicity of the structure and prose, simplicity sounds like a compliment, what I mean is the clunkiness of the narrative and how bad the dialogue is, and the way everything seems so transparently the work of the writer writing, moving on the plot, making the points. In really good novels the words sometimes seem invisible, and the world is dazzlingly apparent. Still Lurie's book has an engaging subject and actually I really enjoyed reading it, that is the magic of stories, I guess.