LOST (Alice Lichtenstein) - July 11/10

There's a lot in Lost worth liking - including the narrative (revolving around an elderly man with dementia who is lost in the snowy woods) and the characters - Lichtenstein's almost unreasonably flowery prose can be grating and does tend to occasionally negate the book's positives. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that Lichtenstein was best known for writing poetry, as she infuses many of the novel's passages with an overwrought style that's often somewhat oppressive. Still, I liked the characters and the mystery (although it would have been nice to have received a little more closure with Jeff). **1/2 out of ****