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Read a 'lyrical' novel that didn't utterly bore me!

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Naomi K
Jul 18, 2016
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Actually the title of this post is a bit of an understatement. On the plane back from Maine, I read Marguerite Duras' The Lover, which is a French novel from the 80s that I've been meaning to read to for awhile, and it was legitimately one of the best novels I have ever read in my life, and quite possibly the best novel I've so far read this year.

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