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  • Date posted: December 26, 1999

    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

    As in Mrs Dalloway the prose in The Hours is extremely beautiful. Michael Cunningham writes with such love and tenderness that I sometimes just had to stop and let the sentences resonate in my mind.

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  • Date posted: January 1, 1999

    Georges Perec, Life a User's Manual

    Life A User's Manual is a book for readers, and the more you have read the more you will appreciate the subtle references to other novels and popular culture. But to say so would do unjustice to a book that is quite simply a marvel to read.

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  • Date posted: January 1, 1999

    Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

    Nightwood by Djuna Barnes is one of the few books I’ve read more than once. Of course I too fell in love with Robin, just as I fell in love with the girl in Novecento, perhaps because she reminds me of a girl I have been in love with, perhaps because I always tend to fall for the same girl.

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  • Date posted: January 1, 1999

    Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

    Mrs Dalloway is one of my favorite books by Virginia Woolf, but To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts are equally brilliant.

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