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"Though I’m not very far into this book, I am already enamoured by the narrative voice. Dowell reminds me of myself and the way I wrote in the aftermath of a personal tragedy. A little maudlin, but that’s alright. Some of my favourite books were written by whiny, upper-class white men, after all." — Jul 01, 2022 05:43PM
"Though I’m not very far into this book, I am already enamoured by the narrative voice. Dowell reminds me of myself and the way I wrote in the aftermath of a personal tragedy. A little maudlin, but that’s alright. Some of my favourite books were written by whiny, upper-class white men, after all." — Jul 01, 2022 05:43PM
“Have you not heard that when two brothers fight a stranger reaps the harvest?”
― Arrow of God
― Arrow of God
“A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.”
― Arrow of God
― Arrow of God
“Ethan’s love of nature did not take the form of a taste for agriculture. He had always wanted to be an engineer, and to live in towns, where there were lectures and big libraries and “fellows doing things.”
― Ethan Frome
― Ethan Frome
“The Elders always said I spoke an hour before I thought.”
― The Great Hunt
― The Great Hunt
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― Arrow of God
― Arrow of God
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