Friday, December 29, 2023

2023 book 237

 Helen DeWitt's The English Understand Wool

What an exquisite novella! It’s about a teenage girl, raised in luxury and with the highest of tastes, who we come to see is writing a book about her life, with correspondence from her editor included. My only complaint is that I’d have read like a seven hundred page novel about these people—though of course the power is in its brevity. A.

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