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This sleepy vacation novel turns into horror story toward the end; Colin and Mary are disinterested lovers on vacation, rekindling their love interest. They bump into Robert, who takes them to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant to dine with the locals. C & M end up staying with Robert and his wife...
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Not my words (didn't capture them at the time of reading): From Publisher's Weekly: Challenging San Francisco's popular image as a tolerant, carefree, gracious city, Brechin unearths 150 years of deeply unsettling history. San Francisco's founding aristocracy were Southerners drawn to California as a mecca newly opened up for enterprise--particularly...
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Atonement
by lz in Reading Archive on 06Sep2002
Beginning in the 1930s, a young Briony accuses the cleaning lady's son of assaulting her visiting cousin, Lola, because Briony found a note from Robbie to her sister Ceclia. This is amidst attempts of Briony to have her visiting cousins act in her play, The Trials of Arabella. The rest...
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