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And the first half is so attractive, so dramatic, so dominant — that the second half just falls away somewhat. The second half is about Julia — and the novel cannot conjure the same sense of rapture when concerned with this character. It is rare to find a character in a book that is so charming off the page.

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Even though Sebastian hated the Church he grew up in—hated the rigid, fossilized, conservative Catholicism of s Europe—that rigid austerity is all Charles has left of Sebastian in an ever-changing world. His lonely middle age has been shattered by another.

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Julia and Charles agree to divorce their spouses and marry each other. This is less problem for Charles, an agnostic, than it is for Julia and her Catholic upbringing. Her devotion forbids her divorce, and Charles, having already secured his, is left alone. Sebastian went to Germany to convince him to return, which he nearly succeeded in doing.