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| | | | | The narrator of this novel is, like its author, a middle-aged Swiss writer named Christian Kracht. His mother calls him urgently to Zurich, which is a stifling place for him: Zurich was claustropho... | |
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| | | | | "I must not wish my life away," she told herself. Elizabeth Taylor's novel, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is an exploration of old age, loneliness and impending death. The focus of the novel is Mrs. Palfrey and her tedious life as one of a handful of elderly residents at a fading hotel. Mrs. Palfrey, facing... | |
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| | | | | In reading terms, I'm on track with 11 books read. A bit behind on the reviewing, only 5. So let's balance things up a little with a trio of quick reviews. One word provides the perfect summary of my response to Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and that is .... Hmmmm. A marmite novel if ever there... | |
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| | | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... | ||
