chgoange's review against another edition
4.0
The old man in this book could be a librarian's dream or nightmare...depending on one's perspective and patience!
mlytylr's review
5.0
Loved that it was an epistolary novel about letters. The two main characters -- a blue-collar-type American who finds his great-great-grandfather's (gggf - hah) correspondence with authors like Hardy, Dickens, and Trollope and the Oxbridge-educated VP at Christie's who is interested in purchasing them -- rise above stereotypes and cliches; their friendship is the best thing about the novel. The excerpted correspondences from Dickens, et al., are also wonderful -- on that note, don't read this if you are not at least marginally interested in Victorian literature.
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