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Book Review: Girl In The Moonlight


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Charles Dubow’s new novel, Girl in the Moonlight , like his debut novel, Indiscretion , is admittedly a tribute to The Great Gatsby . And, like Dubow’s earlier book, a compelling story about obsession and love. For Gatsby, who comes from the demimonde, Daisy Buchanan is the incarnation of the golden girl, her voice “full of money.” For Dubow’s upper-class narrator Wylie Rose, however, the siren-goddess who claims his heart, mind, body, and soul attracts him for reasons other than money, which
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