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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Apr 2002
Genre: Fiction - Psychological
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 273
...GROWNUPS...doesn't deliver. Its lightness isn't unpleasing and its story isn't unaffecting. But Tyler's darker books insinuate themselves more deeply into one's heart....It pains me to say this, but Tyler seems a little spent in GROWNUPS....
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