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5.0
In this highly fraught, anxiety-ridden volume, Henry James, lifelong expatriate long before Hemingway and others made it fashionable, returns to his native America and turns his prodigious gifts as a travel writer upon the land that he chose to leave. James' always elaborately constructed sentences gain an edge of the neurotic here, but while with other writers (Salman Rushdie?) that might prove irritating, with the cool, detached James it is quite welcome. The unsteadiness serves to lend James' scincillating gifts of description a weight and depth they often lack and the whole volume reads as unerringly fascinating.
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