The Reserve

by Russell Banks

Harper

January 2008, 287 pages, $24.95

by Christopher Kelly

McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

Too much of The Reserve feels like it was written following too many late nights spent watching Turner Classic Movies marathons.
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