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Cool, prestige, grave and contemplative.
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 279
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802151063
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First sentence
“Now the shadow of the column-the column which supports the southwest corner of the roof-divides the corresponding corner of the veranda into two equal parts.”
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