Which authors render a physical environment so well you can smell it?

[Emmalita]

Drmllz watched Sophia Coppola’s 1999 adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, but when she read Jeffrey Eugenides' book, she was struck by the environmental rot. “We inhale chemical pollution and burning rubber from motor plants, we smell decay, we smell entrapment and emotional claustrophobia, we smell desire, which is not an ethereal scent in the novel, it’s animal.”

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