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The Heart Goes Last

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Claude Simon has written a Proustian novel, exquisitely intermingling the memories of youth and age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from school every morning of his childhood. -Blurb, back cover ...more
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Luminous, Gripping - It possesses the compassion and wit of Angela's Ashes combined with the aching regret of an Irish Ballad." - The New York Times ...more
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