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Atmospheric Disturbances, a novel by Rivka Galchen

From:     book reviews
Category: Art
Date:     26 July 2008
Time:     03:24 AM

Review:

This was reasonably well reviewed in the New Yorker, and I was moderately pleased when a copy 
came into my possession. However I can say it is one of the most sleep-causing books I have ever 
read, and I was forced to finish it in daylight. It is a book that gets worse and worse, with lots of short 
chapters of silly dialogue and sub sci-fi action. Perhaps it is witty meditation on love and identity, but 
it reads like something went wrong with the copy and paste.


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