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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book while attending my friend’s wedding in the Caribbean (doesn’t everyone bring books to match the theme of the event??) I had heard about from the blog: Bookslut. This novella was published by Virginia Woolf and her husband and the writing style very much reminded me of Woolf. I d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58455914">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very small book - but really a beautifully written and well observed piece. The story concerns a family on the day of a young girl's wedding. Dolly - the bride, is getting ready - the family eat lunch - two cousins squabble.  There is for the reader a real sense of time and place with this novelle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60394873">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A slight novel...<br/><br/>Apparently this was required reading for New Yorker staffers at some point in the last few decades. I think this reflects poorly on the New Yorker.<br/><br/>Let me mention, I'm on summer vacation and finally have time for pleasure reading! Hooray!]]></body>
    
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