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Rent While I Was Gone
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Nov 2002
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 352
Synopsis
While I Was Gone'...gives Miller the chance to limn a '60s youth, an initially contented marriage and, eventually, a marriage struggling to regain its balance. She handles all three areas with masterly skill. IIt's just the connective tissue that feels contrived, in part because of weak plotting and in part because Eli, foggily characterized in both his past and his present incarnations, remains an ungraspable character.
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