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The Gates of Ivory - Margaret Drabble
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"...For Margaret Drabble's middle-aged characters, put in a position of advantage by education and circumstance, it is also the realization that the idealism they grapple with is itself a product of privilege. Exiles, refugees, and tourists cross the bridge between the worlds of Good Time and Bad Time in England and the Far East, struggling to understand their connection..."
(S.L., p. 45)