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I feel bad dissing a canadian novel, but i have to be honest. Fourteen years, a great depression, and a world war later, christian sets out to discover why gillian was ripped from his life. Published in 1938, this must have been quite the scandalous little novel back in the day, with its nudity, multiple sexual partners, drinking, and cocaine. Ondaatje, i really wanted to like this book and tell everyone to read it, but i just cant. To satisfy her wandering feet, eighteenyear old gillian mcallister is.
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