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The card game in the graveyard is astringently atonal, with scraped strings representing Tom's tormented nerves; the long harpsichord solo that follows, as Shadow grapples to catch his victim's soul, sounds truly skeletal, like bones rattling in the pit.
Based on the rejection of hard thought, such schooling inevitably succumbed to what Kirk astringently called "the drug of ideology".
Fabrizio's Return Mark Frutkin Knopf Canada 311 pages, hardcover ISBN: 0676977278 Whether recreating belle epoque France in Atmospheres Apollinaire, Marco Polo's travels in The Lion of Venice, the Tibet of a hundred years ago in Invading Tibet, or Spain's collapse into civil war in Slow Lightning, Mark Frutkin characteristically displays an astringently lyrical narrative talent, irradiated by a fascination with matters spiritual and artistic.
 
 
 
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