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The Great Fire by William Maxwell
The prose is often very quiet, very straightforward. That will have been preceded by something far easier to handle and then he suddenly makes these gear changes into these tiny set pieces. As if to say I have found a riff I had to build on it, polish it, make it perfect. Just a tiny sentence, just exactly that gear change. And of course Shirley Hazard's new William Maxwell very well was one of his writers at the New Yorker. We did Shirley Hazard's The Great Fire on that list is a while ago. So I want to still read.
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