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As these shrinking cities nevertheless continue to sprawl into the far suburbs, turning more and more nature into miasmic built form, nature is returning into the innercity, and it can draw people back to these burned-out cores. Even among more knowledgeable reviewers, no one identifies the Casson stories as problem novels even though they deal with social and emotional matters that, in a lesser writer's work, would overwhelm us with the characters' miasmic angst and self-absorption. Lawton, her enthusiasm ironclad even in the company of four stupefied young men, had gone on endlessly about her daughter Caitlin's countless suitors, her success at finishing school in New York, how she'd met Marcus Garvey at a special salon in Harlem the month before, and so on and so forth, until the evening stretched out into a miasmic, brain-deadening drone. |
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