Contemporary Literature
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First 100 Words: Beloved
in 100 Words‘After all the long, discursive openings I’ve tackled recently, these two short declarations feel like a couple of slaps to the face.’
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First 100 Words: Atonement
in 100 WordsShe’s precocious, energetic, intelligent, driven even. But I think I could only take her in small doses.
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First 100 Words: The Remains of the Day
in 100 WordsSometimes the more people speak, the less they actually say. What aren’t we being told here, and why not?
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What A Way To Go, by Bella Mackie (2024)
in MarginaliaAusten’s forensic observations of society wield the same scalpel; Mackie’s don’t bother to sew up the corpse with the neat stitches of ‘happy ever after’.
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