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One day in the south of France, 1968. #CBRBingo

August 22, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #10 out of 16 Pretty much ever since I abandoned grad school before I completed my doctorate (English lit!), I have been allergic to lit-fic. There is just something about modern literary fiction that hits me the wrong way. Most of it feels to me like the author is trying to impress me, to say something PROFOUND, and a heck of a lot of it is just middle aged white guys having mid-life crises in exactly the same […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr10bingo, Edward St Aubyn, Fiction, lit-fic, literary, narfna, never mind, Patrick Melrose

narfna's CBR10 Review No:100 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr10bingo, Edward St Aubyn, Fiction, lit-fic, literary, narfna, never mind, Patrick Melrose ·
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