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CURTIS SITTENFELD
Dissecting angst and ambition
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JAMES ROBERTSON I Tapping into the nature :_ of good and evil
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TOPS REALLY LONG BOOKS
Who doesn‘t like to settle down at night with a book? But what if that book happens to weigh more than your bed? As the Festival welcomes the very wordy Vikram Chandra with his 1200-page Sacred Games . we browse some of the doorstoppers which make his work look like a dashed-off noveHa. Knickers i. )izw welt pii‘lililetizil Tlit‘. :i‘.
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