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New World Monkeys: A Novel (2009)

by Nancy Mauro(Favorite Author)

2.75 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307461416 (ISBN13: 9780307461414)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Crown

review 1: At it's best this book merits five stars. The opening scene -- in which the husband runs over a feral hog and the wife finishes him off -- is a masterpiece of psychologically insightful black comedy. And the advertising campaign developed over the course of the book for a company that makes both flared and straight blue jeans tops anything Mad Men has come up with. Overall, the book is highly original, funny, and psychologically insightful as it diagnoses a marriage that is falling apart and then comes back together. That said, it is also somewhat repetitive at points and aimless the second half is at times aimless. But I'm very much looking forward to Nancy Mauro's second novel.
review 2: BANAL, dull, painfully boring I could go on and on about how bad this bo... moreok is. The tension in the marriage lacks real emotion, the plot is not compelling, and the author appears to be writing a narrative solely to advertise just how pretentious she is. I could car less about the dead bore, the buried body, or the outcome of this couples marriage, and that is largely due to the authors failure to build any suspense. Largely her failings are due to the narrative style she chose. This might have been a compelling story if she had limited the narration to one of the characters but because she deciders to tell us the story I find myself not being able to relate to the spineless marketing husband or the cold hearted bitch of a wife. I don't know how the author could stand to revises this over and over because reading it only once has been torturous, less

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