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Back Bay by William Martin
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I read in one of the reviews that you couldn't really appreciate this book unless you were familiar with the locations listed in it. I have to agree with that. Living around Boston, I know where Back Bay, South Boston, Roxbury, Bunker Hill and all these others places are, and that makes the story so much more enjoyable.

I was actually seating in a bus at Sullivan Square reading about the battle of Bunker Hill - I almost could see the monument from where I was.

I really enjoyed the plot line about the Revere Tea Set. I was not so familiar with Revere's work and that got me wanting to go to the Museum of Fine Art.

The book is quite long, however, and some of the details of the story could have been cut. Otherwise, I strongly recommend it. ( )
  Livana | Feb 10, 2009 |
I loved the historical part of this novel, but the modern parts had so much bad language that I finally gave up trying to read it. That's really sad because I love books with a Boston setting. However, I'm not sure that I want to try to read other titles by this author when he finds it necessary to overuse bad language. ( )
  thornton37814 | Jul 17, 2008 |
1979. This was well-plotted and suspenseful with but journeyman prose. Adequate. Cool Boston stuff though. Everybody was trying to kill everyone else all through the whole thing. It's kind of crazy. ( )
  kylekatz | Sep 7, 2007 |
This is one of those books where if you are familiar with the geographic setting, it's fun to read for all of the local references, but I didn't find the story to be all that entertaining. ( )
  missylc | May 7, 2007 |
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