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I know because I stepped in it.
This strip was quicksand.
I thought I had already experienced all of the textures!
I thought quicksand existed only in books!
But here it was, an emulsion of sand and water that looked solid and felt liquid.
I easily heaved myself out of the emulsion and into the boat.
Quicksand: It is real, and it is not as expected.
The first of the books here offers a faint 2-D replica of the experience.
It wont be what you predict.
It is indescribably peculiar.
Almost all are malignant xenophobes, homophobes, and/or misogynists.
Some are rich, and some are broke; all are befuddled by the digital economy.
Elio is a pianist having an affair with an older man.
His father, a philologist, falls in love with a chick on a train.
Oliver is a married professor in New England with a roving eye.
If you have read the books antecedent, you wont be surprised that these men intertwine in enchanting ways.
Is the book a little corny?
However, youll need a decent tolerance for the wordloverto enjoy it.
(The rest go in a drawer, I guess.)
She also appears on the cover of all her books wearing, like, a floppy hat.
The synchronicity of prose style andGoogle-image-results-of-authoris sublime.
Listen to theaudio versionofShe Saidnext time you have 9.9 hours and the urge to beTHRILLEDby an investigative-journalism procedural?
Feast on theworkof a critic in the prime of hisBRAIN?
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