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That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
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The whole town was ripe with salt and haunted by the action of the tides. At night it filled with boisterous drunk men.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, • Breasts and Eggs
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Author Gabrielle Zevin brought a new kind of love story into the world with her universally admired novel about life, love, fame, failure, and video game design. Tomorrow was also selected as Amazon Books Editors' book of the year and it’s going to be a movie, too—Zevin is cu... See more
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I felt empty: no furniture, no curtains, no rugs. Just an empty container.
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
I have entered sadness as one might enter a room – this after weeks of my heart having for its habitation a place as unyielding and flat as an Essex field in winter! John Bell says: What ails you, wife? He produces gardenias, hair-combs, lenses, bracelets in amber and jet, celestial almanacs, a white hen – reminds me that the whole exchequer of his
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