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   106. By Michiko Kakutani. Sept. 27, 2012. With J. K. Rowling’s new novel, “The Casual Vacancy,” we are firmly in Muggle-land — about as far from the enchanted world of Harry Potter as we can...

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   Sep 27, 2012 · J.K. Rowling. 3.30. 329,504 ratings32,628 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Winner for Best Fiction (2012) A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN ... When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.

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   • Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. is that the vast cast of characters and all their machinations leave little room for character development. Rowling's characters come across as cardboard cutouts, one-dimensional substitutes for the real thing.

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   • I can understand the responses because of the theme and some of the scenes are gritty with some unpleasantness, very real-life and honest. In The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling has made a successful transition to the real-world. Especially when she gets into the minds of 16 years old boys is class.

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   • Franziska Kraufmann/European Pressphoto Agency In some respects “The Casual Vacancy” is grappling with many of the same themes as the Harry Potter books: the losses and burdens of responsibility that come with adulthood, and the stubborn fact of mortality.

   Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling - The New York Times

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   • Unfortunately, the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that “The Casual Vacancy” is not only disappointing — it’s dull.

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   Sep 29, 2012 · The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – review. JK Rowling's first novel for adults, a full-on evocation of modern British class war, is hugely impressive. Melvyn Bragg. Sat 29 Sep 2012 19.05...

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   Sep 27, 2012 · Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2015. Kirkus Prize winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.

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   Sep 27, 2012 · It’s a big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, very upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence and entirely bereft of bullshit, and if...