Sunday, September 12, 2010

Rag-and-bone shops of the heart

At the Guardian Review, William Boyd on Elizabeth Bishop's life in Brazil.

3 comments:

  1. Very odd bit of writing -- esp. near the end every paragraph seems to begin with a jolt. "Suicide was the verdict..." "Tragedy seems..." "Valium was the drug..." "Zona Sul is the official designation..." "Ouro Preto is a town..."

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  2. The oddity struck me too - it must be that the layout in the print version did more with the disjunctions, in an online format it just seems under-edited!

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  3. Thanks for the link, Jenny--

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