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Patiently Finding le Mot Juste single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Patiently Finding le Mot Juste
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Jones writes of his experience of studying Latin as a high school student and of reading the works of Ernest Hemingway, Lawrence Durrell and Gustave Flaubert. These influences helped him appreciate the need to find le mot juste - the one word - in his own writing.

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    y separately published work icon The Weekend Australian 26-27 July 2003 Z1053744 2003 newspaper issue 2003 pg. 4-5 Section: Books Extra
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