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"This slender memoir/novel is full of nothing but perfect sentences. Sigrid Nunez is so intelligent, so insightful, and such a polished sentence crafter that each bit of it was delicious. She quotes a lot of other writers on all kinds of subjects, ..."
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"DNF... I have heard so much great hype about this novel, but early on I began to have my misgivings about 2021 sensibilities vis-a-vis sexism being projected onto academia of the 1950s in a very didactic manner. The rape scene really was a horribl..."
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"This is unlike any novel you will ever read, set as it is in a utopian community in Botswana in the 1980s. It is told from the POV of a very clever and wry white woman who romantically pursues the charismatic man whose vision the community is buil..."
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