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![]() ![]() ![]() (.) A Sight for Sore Eyes is perhaps a little depthless, like Teddy and Francine, themselves, a little too out of touch with ordinary reality. "The novel is particularly good in setting scenes that will prefigure what is to come.(.) Spare and unforgiving, these incisive character studies illuminate the darker corners of Teddy's and Francine's family histories without dimming the originality of their bizarre lives." - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review (.) All of this would work if there were the morality of Inspector Wexford guiding it some superstructure taking the narrative beyond these one- dimensional, stricken lives." - Frances Fyfield, The Independent "Despite its excellent later plot, the neat construction and the powerful images, it remains a wandering narrative about universally dislikeable people, clinically described and dissected and then manipulated into playing a long, slow game. ![]()
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