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Statues in a Garden
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Justin Evans Justin Evans said: " Not as gripping as Colegate's later novels, and especially unreadable in the recentish Bloomsbury edition, which is so badly proofread that I have a hard time believing any human so much as glanced at it before publication. Full stops are just kind o ...more "

 
A Fringe of Leaves
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"A harrowing tale of one woman's fight to overcome the bourgeois oppression of the husband who she was forced to... if I wanted to read a D. H. Lawrence novel, couldn't I just go read one? When White isn't at the peak of his style, his ideas become more noticeable. And that is no good for anyone." Nov 24, 2014 04:04PM

 
The Skin
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"Malaparte: I want to love him. His cynicism is tainted with just enough pain. His symbols are wonderful. But either he, or his translators, couldn't write their way through a college admissions essay." Oct 22, 2015 11:26AM

 
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