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War and Turpentine is superlative. The final section with its discoveries and emotion is powerful and even stupendous. The middle forms the heart of the story, and the whole thing —minding a few awkward moments— is wonderfully written and imagined and imparted.
To write the book the author, a Flemish poet, relied on journals entrusted to him by his grandfather, an amateur painter whose life was upended by war and the illnesses that took his father and his betrothed. I was interested in War and T ...more
To write the book the author, a Flemish poet, relied on journals entrusted to him by his grandfather, an amateur painter whose life was upended by war and the illnesses that took his father and his betrothed. I was interested in War and T ...more
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Susan
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Viv JM
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Heather(Gibby)
marked it as maybe
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Camelia Rose (on hiatus)
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