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Enchanting

Enchanting

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Brett Alan Dewing
Mar 18, 2010
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I am currently reading Salman Rushdie's new novel, The Enchantress of Florence. It may already be one my favourites. Rushdie has set aside his trademark muscular busy polyglot prose for a soft, contemplative, dreamy, massaging style. It's like trading Mary for Martha. The text truly does enchant, working words like spells, like beautiful unknown scents,…

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