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Character
Classical in form, character-led, earnest and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Philip Larkin
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 791
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571170487
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First sentence
“I've just been out shopping & bought 1 pkt of notepaper, 25 envelopes, 1 oz tobacco, 1 oz assorted cigarettes (Russian, Egyptian & fuck-all), 1 notebook, and 1 child's drawing book.”
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