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• n  incompleteness of details

• In between, there's a life, including three failed marriages, several infidelities and artistic ambitions he set aside, but Roth draws them with uncharacteristic sketchiness.
• In his business, no news was good news, which may account for the sketchiness of two previous biographies.
• It seems there's a sketchiness around the TV critic business these days.

Quotes

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• Lindsey Van in New York Times
  The sketchiness of it all makes it more interesting,Van said. "It's an indescribable feeling. That's why I keep having to go up there again and again."