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- The more distance I have from having finished the book, the more I really like it. I'm re-reading it.
- Winterson was commissioned by Hammer, a British film production company that specializes in horror, to write a plot-driven horror narrative. She hates the plot-driven narrative form of fiction; she believes language should tie the narrative together, not the story. Anyway, this explains the hor ...more
- The more distance I have from having finished the book, the more I really like it. I'm re-reading it.
- Winterson was commissioned by Hammer, a British film production company that specializes in horror, to write a plot-driven horror narrative. She hates the plot-driven narrative form of fiction; she believes language should tie the narrative together, not the story. Anyway, this explains the hor ...more
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Dana Arbelaez
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