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|author= Elizabeth Hay
|title= His Whole Life
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= If you think that ''un-put-down-able'' is the greatest accolade for a book, think again. ''Put-down-able'' can be stronger praise: ''His Whole Life'' is put-down-able. It encourages you to put it down, to wrap yourself in the slow-moving story, the exquisite writing, the subtleties of the characters, and just walk around for a while with them slowly sinking in; it encourages you to come back to it again and again; mostly it encourages you to put it down, to read it slowly, because you don't want it to end.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857055445</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Phillip Lewis
|summary=''The Evenings'' was voted the best Dutch novel of all time by the Society of Dutch Literature, and its author, Gerard Reve (1923–2006), was the first openly gay writer in the Netherlands. It's a historic book for its native country, but will it have the same impact in English translation? Contemporary Dutch novelist Herman Koch compares ''The Evenings'' to the works of Kerouac and Salinger, and I can see how it could have achieved cult status for a certain generation, but plot-wise I found it more tedious than revelatory.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271783</amazonuk>
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