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STARRED REVIEW

The Morning Star

The Morning Star is dark, eerie, mesmerizing and, yes, totally worth the mental stamina required to get through it.

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Review of ‘The Morning Star’

The first thing you’ll notice about award-winning Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star is how big it is. At almost 700 pages, it’s a book that takes up considerable real estate not just on the nightstand or in a bag but also within the mind, demanding a particular kind of mental stamina.

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