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Possession, by AS Byatt

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Marion

I had forgotten what a rich, immersive, layered, ornamented book A.S. Byatt’s Possession is. When I was reading it, it seemed… well, not small, but perhaps intimate. This is because so much of it takes place in the intimate confines … Continue reading →

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Two Bleak and Slender Books: The Painter of Battles

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Marion

“She was leaving, do you understand?  She was already leaving me.  Suddenly I wanted to know how far . . . I don’t know.  How she was leaving didn’t depend on me.  Maybe geometry had something to say on the … Continue reading →

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