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    SHELF LIFE

    Aug 05, 2021 2 minutes

    The Age of Innocence

    by Edith Wharton

    ‘My bookshelves will tell you that about two thirds of the fiction I read is written by women: Pat Barker, Penelope Lively, Anita Brookner, Irmgard Keun, Helen Dunmore, Rose Tremain, Hiromi Kawakam, Elena Ferrante, etc, etc: Strange as it sounds – or perhaps even cockeyed – I particularly admire Edith Wharton because her fiction always reminds me what a non-fiction

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