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"Northern Gothic, intense and relentless. The author lived there many years and captures the bleakness of midwinter in a place barely welcoming at the best of times. The plot, an ever-deepening existential nightmare, adds to the claustrophobia.
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"London, 1953. Jimmy Sullivan lies dying on the drawing room floor while his housemates look on, their lives about to change forever. One foggy night in the dead of February, a young man arrives unannounced at 42 Tregunter Road in Chelsea....
""For a tear is an intellectual thing"- the epigraph from Blake.
In this brilliant cultural history Mount builds on de Rougemont's 'Love in the Western World', which located the origins of romance in the twelfth century troubadours. Mount adds t..."
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