Word: gaitlin
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...central character in a typical Tyler novel is a well-meaning but somehow ineffectual hero or heroine, a misfit who wonders how everyone else manages to cope. This time out, it's Barnaby Gaitlin, who turns 30 during the course of this story without having acquired any noticeable trappings of success. "A rented room," his ex-wife Natalie chides him, "an unskilled job, a bunch of shiftless friends. No goals and no ambitions...
...true, he concedes, and there is worse. Barnaby is the scion of a distinguished Baltimore, Md., family; his great-grandfather made enough money to establish the Gaitlin Foundation for the Indigent, now headed by Barnaby's father. But the son's career as a teenage vandal strained relations with his family. "Back in the days when I was a juvenile delinquent," Barnaby confides, "I used to break into houses and read people's private mail. Also photo albums. I had a real thing about photo albums...
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