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A slow burn of a novel that had me under its spell with its beautiful passages (“A flame darted from the logs and she bent over the fire, stretching her thin hands so close to it that a faint halo shone about the oval nails”). Wharton has a way of capturing moments of intoxicating intimacy; subtle, unspoken human exchanges; and frustration, yearning, and resignation to one’s duty unlike any author I’ve read in recent days. I was spellbound by this novel’s atmosphere, and quietly ravaged by its f
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