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        The Death Of The Heart


        setting

        London, and the shores of England

        time

        1930s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1938

        page count

        419

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Matchett

        Rip's impressions

        Perhaps the biggest draw of this book is to experience how a young woman in Britain, coming of age, sees love, devotion, and infidelity in proper London circles. Beyond that, what is there to like? I remember Jane Smiley's review was not very flattering (she panned Gatsby too). Maybe we Americans just don't warm up to unemotional British circumstance. To be fair, I should give it a re-read.

        first line

        That morning's ice, no more than a brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments. These tapped together or, parting, left channels of dark water, down which swans in slow indignation swam.

        last lines

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