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Issue Details:
First known date:
2021...
30 May
2021
of
The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review
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* Contents derived from the 2021 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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As the World Burns,
single work
review
— Review of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams 2020 single work novel ;'When the characters in Richard Flanagan’s intriguing new novel look at their phones, the sentences run on without punctuation. It’s a stylistic, reader-focused tic: We join the uninterrupted stream of photos and headlines from the catastrophic wildfires that scorched Australia a little over a year ago. We glide past “incinerated kangaroos in fetal clutches of fencing wire charred koalas burnt bloated cattle on their backs.”' (Introduction)
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