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"I chose to read this almost as an apology for having given up on Beaton’s "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands" when it was a finalist on Canada Reads; I could see that she had weighty matters to share in that work but I abandoned it because I simpl..."
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The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling...
"Of all Virginia Woolf’s novels, this may be the least challenging for the reader—which may account for its popularity in Woolf’s day. It consists of a series of static visual tableaux: Colonel Pargiter at his club; then at his mistress’s flat; at ..."
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