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The Moments Lost: A Midwest Pilgrim's Progress

by Bruce Olds

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April 2008, 480 pages, $16.00

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At times impressive in scope and range, the narrative ultimately suffers and strangulates under the weight of the author’s use and abuse of alliterations and arcane verbs and nouns.

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