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This book sucks you in! It takes us along the inner dialogue (consisting of funny and quirky musings) by the narrator.

This is such a hard read. I have to pause every few pages to let it sink in or distract myself. I can’t do this in one go.

“The happy, wealthy bohemian life was proving the old maxim that bourgeois bliss is seldom the subject matter of electrifying art. All changed later that year when the stock market crashed.”

“Precision often destroys the dream, takes all the life out of a fable […]”

‘[…] the real subject of the picture is the power of sexual control exercised by the unreachable female.’