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The Danish Girl
by David Ebershoff
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Needs editing! 
The author is Editor-at-Large for Random House, but needs a refresher course in English grammar. He uses "nauseous" for "nauseated" and is maddeningly inconsistent in his use of the subjunctive mood. Other unimportant, but jarring, errors break the flow of an interesting story.
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Breathtaking, surprising -- a magnificent accomplishment 
I had read and loved The Rose City, and I picked up this novel knowing little about the subject matter. Ebershoff, who did such a brilliant job depicting the psychology of his protagonists in his short story collection, does a magnificent job revealing surprising characters and their unusual life stories. I think the word "breathtaking" is overused in blurbs and reviews, but that's a word I can't help but use to describe the sensation of losing myself in this narrative. A superb novel.
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PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE...
This is a stunning debut novel by someone who is no novice to the publishing industry, as he is the director of The Modern Library, which is a division of Random House. With this book as his entree into the ranks of novelist, Mr. Ebershoff rightly claims a place among the distinguished. This is a most elegantly written novel.
His book is loosely based upon the true story of Danish painters, Einar Wegener and Gerda Waud. They met in Copenhagen, while they were both art students, and married a few years... more info
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PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE...
This is a stunning debut novel by someone who is no novice to the publishing industry, as he is the director of The Modern Library, which is a division of Random House. With this book as his entree into the ranks of novelist, Mr. Ebershoff rightly claims a place among the distinguished. This is a most elegantly written novel.His book is loosely based upon the true story of Danish painters, Einar Wegener and Gerda Waud. They met in Copenhagen, while they were both art students, and married a few years... more info
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