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★☆☆☆☆
After GENTLEMAN FROM MOSCOW, what a disappointment...
The principles are teenage boys in the early 1950s--except for an eight-year-old little brother. The narrator ricochets from one of the characters to another, their thoughts (except, maybe, for Emmett’s) far too mature and introspective considering the ages involved. Moreover, the little brother is beyond precocious. The plot meanders, soon becomes tedious, then devolves into the absurd. I gave up…
