Books by Ward Just
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review 1: Like in An Unfinished Season, Ward Just adeptly examines the contrivances of memory and unfurls the subtleties of the North Shore class system. Although the novel's two primary settings, New Jesper (Waukegan?) and Hyde Park, are deftly sketched, Just leaves Ogden Hall deliberatel...
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review 1: I really struggled to relate to the main character, Harry Sanders. In a novel that is essentially a character study, this is a somewhat fatal flaw. Sanders is a rather mediocre personality, and the book follows the whole span of his foreign service career as he moves from assignm...
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review 1: Another quiet, beautifully written tale of "moral ambiguity" from Ward Just about life and politics in the nation's capital with forays to Eastern Europe through several characters. While not as suspenseful as others of the author's books, I found the book compelling as the agin...