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Sep 06, 2018sgcf rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This novella takes place in the course of a single pivotal day of lush loving as well as heartbreak, with backward looking exposition and omniscient narration projected into the future. To me, it feels like a short story Swift has padded with much repetition and halting, phrase-strewn sentence structure. (In my head I hear the narrator’s voice as actor Bill Nighy.) However, this repetition is similar to what certain memories do – they play over and over in the mind like a mesmerizing dream. Like a poet playing with words …which is what Jane does so successfully, breaking out of the class she was born into to become a well known writer.