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The success of the movie based on Joanne Harris' novel "Chocolat" likely will draw readers and listeners into her new novel, "Coastliners."
It is, in a way, familiar turf: A quaint, tucked-away French village _ this one on a small island _ and a cast of characters so crotchety and somehow endearing that they work their way into your psyche and refuse to come out.
The fact that the book is also confusing and, from time to time, downright tedious is sort of beside the point.
Along the way, one begins to care about these simple people _ mostly old coots and codgers, embittered over past losses and affronts, trying to scratch out a living from the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, `Chocolat' author's new novel `Coastliners' is familiar...