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    <body><![CDATA[Lush and tender.  After reading the crappy sentences of &quot;The Pillars of the Earth,&quot; sinking into McCullers's sentences was like easing into a hot bath: &quot;In addition to the store she operated a still three miles back in the swamp, and ran out the best liquor in the country.&quot;  Ahh.  So I didn't mind so much the melodrama or the adolescent rhapsody in sentences like &quot;Otherwise the town is lonesome, sad, and like a place that is far off and estranged from all other places in the world.&quot;  Or the awful pain.  McCullers doesn't really care about redemption; love of Amelia did redeem Marvin, and that didn't do any good, and so he turned bitter and worse than ever, and that's just backstory.  Redemption isn't the point: it's the loneliness itself.  Most of it works beautifully; and the whole book is worth it for the description of whiskey on p 10. ]]></body>
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