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This book was very visceral. The author seemed very interested in the smell and taste of the story. I actually quite liked it. It was descriptive without turning into purple prose.

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She listened to him leave the office, no doubt to gather information for his article, his footsteps muffled amongst the clack of typebars and the murmur of voices and the swirl of cigarette smoke.

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She gnawed on a hangnail, tasting a faint trace of metal from the typewriter keys.

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