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"[A] heart-wrenching and beautifully written novel....This novel is a rare and remarkable achievement. Given its subject matter it could have been as grittily depressing as anything by Zola or Orwell, yet somehow, amid all the relentless squalor, what Orwell called the 'crystal spirit' shines indomitably through. Flanagan blends a strong yet delicate psychological sensibility with the kind of sharp, vivid, original prose more common in good poets. His outcasts really got past my emotional guard."Flanagan, Richard is the author of 'Sound of One Hand Clapping', published 2001 under ISBN 9780802137845 and ISBN 0802137849.
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