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Classical in form, grave, spare and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Eugene McCabe
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 229
- Publisher
- Domaine Irlandais, Secker & Warburg, Bloomsbury USA
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9782862341552
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First sentence
“A LACK OF BIRD-CALL, a sense of encroaching light and then far away the awful dawn bawling of a beast in great pain.”
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