Word: cohesionã
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...tree, reaching the epic length of 614 pages. And those hundreds of pages seem to contain nothing more than smoke.While each sentence, each paragraph, and each page is unapologetically lyrical and unabashedly grand, with a pronounced biblical undercurrent that promises depth, the work lacks substance, lacks true cohesion??lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness and beauty, “Tree of Smoke” ultimately proves enigmatic, inaccessible, and disappointing. In the novel, which is mostly set in Vietnam from...
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