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    <![CDATA['There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, an 18th century bawd, and into the world of painful beauty where language has the power to heal. <em>Art &amp; Lies</em> is a question and a quest: How shall I live?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[exquisite poetic writing - captures verbal ros]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I aspire to write so beautifully.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Art &amp; Lies is my favorite novel of all time. I have read it at least 5 times now, and it is richer and more rewarding with each return. Winterson is a master wordsmith, who brings a poet's sensuality to her prose. Her use of language in Art &amp; Lies is incantatory, densely layered, difficult and gorge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/397296">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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