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"This quiet little masterpiece is on par with "The Dead" as one of the great contemporary Irish tales. Bill Furlong has a nice life: wife and children, his own business, a life of relative privilege, of which he's well aware. And Bill's a thoughtf..." Permalink

"This was so close to being a 4, but there was one story element that wasn't, I think, explored as well as it could have been, and seemed sort of tacked on. To be fair, there is a LOT going on in this book, and the rest of it all works beautifully...." Permalink

"I didn't hate it, but if we still charged overdue fines, I wouldn't have taken the 25-cent hit for it. Five kids disappear on parents' weekend at a posh California University. Is their disappearance connected to that of a sixth student, who went ..." Permalink