Well written, enjoyable to read, but lacks salt. If the existential and personal considerations Laura are finely described, I still felt like an ever read. And as to the reasons why Richard to withdraw from the "game" the author does not bother no proof, merely to evoke imprecisely fault - cowardice - which should convince us that history could not evolve differently. A little lighter. Some critics have declared that this was the best novel the author wrote, I do not share their opinion. It lacks the depth of feeling. The necessities of daily life both too watered down and that basic Kennedy uses to explain the progression in the lives of his characters is easy and futile process that is not enough. Maybe because he is American literature too much restraint, hesitation, adversely affect the pace of the plot. The passion, the madness, the abandonment of the body, would they be words of violence the prerogative of Russian literature ??