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The Trick is to Keep Breathing

Janice Galloway

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Feb 28, 2008 Emily rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Galloway plays with her prose, arranging it on the page in ways often borrowed from poetry. This isn't an easy book to read, but it's brilliantly written and subtly redemptive. It follows the main character as she slides slowly towards a nervous breakdown, but Galloway finds real humor, pathos and sympathy in her characters and the situation. Galloway spoke to my lit class while I was in college, and she is brilliant, funny and honest. If you're looking for a different style than the novels you' ...more

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